Mark Doty on Faith Shearin

What she wishes, wisely, is to be able to love and to see clearly at once. She understands that to do so will require all her resources: irony, good cheer, truthfulness, humor, and a carefully preserved attention to the strangeness of living, the peculiarity of all our enterprises. The result is a lovely, trustworthy first book, full of affection and wry clarity,“all life’s finite hope leaning closer for a kiss.”
Mark Doty, from the forward Faith Shearin's book The Owl Question