THE COMMUTE

About the Book

Patricia Edith's extended poem takes us for a ride through the environment and the progress that threatens it; through suicide, death, family and love; through the actual but also the metaphorical commute we all make through our lives.

"Patricia Edith's voice is clear and authentic, retaining a thoughtful, deliberate calm in the face of an unkempt, riven landscape pressing in on all sides of this extended poem sequence. These are citizen-poems of the 21st Century, glassed in behind the car's windshield, watching the bridge inch closer through a cloud of exhaust. Their subject is estrangement and their subject is freedom."

Joe Millar

author of "Overtime"

About the Author

Patricia Edith?s poetry has appeared in various journals and her chapbook.?The Modern Office?, was published by Redfruit Press in 1998. She has received residencies at Ucross and Ragdale Foundations and several grants. She directs the literary programs at The Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda CA. For years she commuted daily into San Franciso.