Heart Full of Tinders is a hybrid—it is not quite poetry, and it is not quite prose either. The book exists in the space between these forms, just as we all exist in gray spaces–our bodies in slow decay from day to day, our bodies that vie for dominance over the less tangible, but arguably more real, human soul.
Dreams of the Living has poems in it which I wrote as early as 2001, but the book really began to take shape in 2007 while I was obtaining my MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona.The book is an intensely personal response to the death of my mother in 2004, and the death of my partner in 2006. It is an exploration of the intricacies of grief, the body, and the intangibility of all things.