MEGANMerchant
Poet
"Some of the poems seem to want to escape themselves, shedding their pain like an exoskeleton or skin. Others remain a tangle of ache, sites of historical and motherly ferocity. Some read like dialogues across time—woman to ancestor to son—the vacillations between them ethereal and earth-bound, a strand of Mormon history woven throughout. "
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— ROSEMARIE DOMBROWSKI, Academy of American Poets Fellow, Poet Laureate of Phoenix, Arizona, and author of The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals [A Love Story]
“Luke Johnson and Megan Merchant have created a new treasure for readers of poetry. How wonderful it is to encounter a truly unique book—a weaving of two voices, two psyches, two ways of looking at the world, out of which has come this gorgeous wreath of poems. Open this book—with care, with tenderness—and find the many voices inside you speaking with one another, asking great questions, searching for truth in an endlessly lush dialectic, and loving the search.”
—JOSEPH FASANO, author of The Last Song of The World