Literary,accessible lyrics and narratives with universal appeal

Professional Reviews
Fred Marchant, author of Full Moon Boat
"Pay close attention when you read these poems. Sometimes they arrive and depart so quickly you hardly know what happened. If you have that feeling, I advise you to turn back and re-live the poem. You will realize how beautiful it is, how closely observed, and above all how immediate. The poet tells us in one short poem, for instance, that "The cup spills/on my paper;like my thoughts//it rolls and settles/at the edge." Such an image lingers on the retina until we sense we are seeing so much more than we had bargained for. Imagine now the vividness of LeBlanc's poems about the greater sorrows of loss, yearning, and death. Imagine too her vivid joy in the natural world, in allegiant friendship, in the abundance of beauty, all our suffering notwithstanding. Imagine these joys and sorrows woven seamlessly together. Welcome then to the finely wrought world of Linda LeBlanc's "On Trains."

Afaa Michael Weaver, author of The Plum Flower Dance
"The eyes in the window of this train are deeply sympathetic, and give us this treaty made by a disciplined heart with beauty and ugliness. "On Trains" is LeBlans's succinct and sculpted faith in our world, our lives."

Perie Longo, author of With Nothing Behind But Sky
"To read these poems is to be carried along 'the wind off the bogs' from New England to California, and then some. Whether writing about the flight of Nantucket geese, her childhood memories or coming face to face with a maimed child in Baghdad, you will be glad to take this journey with Linda , who has surprises of content, language and vision every stretch of the way."

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