Impulse to Fly

by Almitra David

Writer’s Digest named Almitra David one of “Ten Poets to Watch” in 2000: “Learn from her how to be both tough-minded and variously musical.”

“These are complex and many-layered poems, nothing in them to suggest that it is possible to separate joy from pain, or transformation from tragedy… Almitra David breathes her poetry with grace and ferocity.”

—CALYX

“Impulse to Fly offers verbal lucidity, sensuous impact, emotional integrity, wisdom, and…a gallery of unsentimental but vividly compassionate images.”

—Beloit Poetry Journal