WITHOUT, HAIKU (2013, electronic edition)
Leigh Herrick's WITHOUT, HAIKU is full of brief, lovely poems. The writing is evocative and, due to the nature of haiku, stark. As a collection of poems, it is actually quite glorious....
-Ashley McCall, Portland Book Review
Leigh Herrick has given us a glorious gift to bask in. Even if Without, Haiku only contained two poems - "Creative life..." and "An ant..." -- you would want to keep this voice of clarity close at hand. A tender, potent vision and listening pervades.
-Naomi Shihab Nye
There is a pleasant solitude in Leigh Herrick’s poems, and yet one is aware that she is embraced by a multitude of stories, of humanity, of presence in a world full of “half moons” and “ten thousand dreams.” Wider than contemplation, Without, Haiku invites participation, and stirs in us an inevitable sense of belonging. I love these poems. They are beyond analysis, beyond reasoning, beyond poetry.
–Christina Chow
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HOME FRONT (2012)
HOME FRONT is available in paperback and electronic editions. The paperback is perfectly bound, 116 pp, with a soft cover and gloss cover finish.
-Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive Magazine
Leigh Herrick is a master of tonality and truth. Her performative power explodes from the page into full fluency of its voicing. I have seldom read work that so intrinsically honors both tradition and innovation in the art of poetry. This volume is profoundly important.
-Sheila E. Murphy
Leigh Herrick’s poems are smart, direct and uncompromising calls to action, to change what we do to one another and our world.... She is one hell of a writer, not afraid to experiment with you and the language both, and her meticulously crafted prose is often astonishing.
-Tom Cassidy
One may not wish to revisit the George W. years, however this collection of work is a wide-ranging statement addressing the anger, sorrow and perplexity of what has affected us all. The variety of poetic forms and hard-hitting topics confront our individual and collective pasts...and enlightens our language of remembrance. It's time again to realize that poetry can be relevant as is eloquently shown by Ms. Herrick.
-Scott Helmes