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"In Blue Exhaust, Janet Reed confronts history and childhood in Middle America—a time of Rosemary’s Beauty Shop, a red Corvair, segregation—and displays that world with courage and affection. What makes this collection rare is its delivery of language commensurate to the importance of the stories. In a resounding and thematic moment, the speaker as child is given only the choice of using her mother’s violin, to play as the mother once had done, and observes, 'I, the rib of her instrument.' Such compact, vivid images, resonate throughout this book and show readers that we are, indeed, indebted but not limited to the instruments—opinions or actions—of our predecessors. These are passionate, authentic poems, which veritably soar on the evocations of names, places, and experiences made memorable.

–Robert Stewart, author of Working Class, (Stephen F. Austin University Press , 2017)