The Intimacy Archive

Leigh Anne’s poems speak to me on a personal level. Though they aren’t very insightful into her more intimate parts of life, I can relate to her poems because, like her, I am from Kentucky. The seasonal poems read very well to me because I understood the desperate yearning for one normal season–Heat Wave Dissidents and Two Months’ Time gave me a special joy. Her diction wraps you up in memory, and her voice is amicable, drawing you in to a story about normal life written in a new perspective. Like in Texting With my Mother after a Death in the Family, you see an everyday activity, texting, with a dark spin. The end line “we flare in each other’s palms” makes me shiver–a brilliant new way to look at how technology has affected our relationships and our lives. All in all, an A in my book.”

—Abby, Amazon.com Customer