A SPEAKER IS WILDERNESS
RELEASES JUNE 4, 2024
“Anna Goodman Herrick is a rising star, a poet and bard well beyond her years in wisdom and vision. Her book A Speaker Is a Wilderness brings tears of recognition and awe to my eyes every time I open it.”
—Rabbi Dr. TIrzah Firestone, Author of Wounds into Wisdom
“Anna Goodman Herrick revels in beauty and sacredness, a testament to defiantly vowing to not live in fear. She writes of a new beginning, informed by tragedy but refusing to be defined by it: ‘We opened / the windows of ourselves, sent the night out searching / for our collective liberation like a raven / for the end of the flood.’”
—Kara Lewis, Read Poetry
“Listening to Anna Goodman Herrick read a poem made the hair on my arm stand up. I wonder if we could measure the effects of good poetry on electrodermal activity.” —Timothy Green, Editor, Rattle Magazine