Powerful love between a grandmother and a granddaughter animates the voices in this poignant series of inner monologues set against the backdrop of global climate crisis and the COVID pandemic. Margaret Gibson's Draw Me without Boundaries lays bare the integrity and depth of inquiry it takes to make life and death choices in a broken world. This luminous book-innovative, suspenseful, deeply moving-reflects in conjoined poetry and prose the profound issues of our time.
"In these intimate, truth-telling poems, Gibson has conjured two lives out of the air and made them indelible. I greatly admire the range, depth, and subtle strangeness in the thrilling counterpoint of their voices, which sing as they investigate youth and age, love and loss, and their last days together on a wounded earth."
Chase Twichell
"Draw Me without Boundaries is a fluid and eloquent meditation that embodies the wisdom of a life lived with wonder and with ethical attention and consideration. Everything we might hope for in a book from Margaret Gibson, these brilliantly lyrical monologues and her dramatic throughlines, as intimate as they are archetypal, invite comparison to Virginia Woolf's The Waves."
Paula Closson Buck
"Expanding her mastery as a lyric and meditative writer, Gibson has given us a remarkable book, full of gratitude for what is here and goes on (in all its infinite manifestations) and regret for what is always being lost."
