Crossing Boundaries: Poetry of Catherine Reed

Matthew Arnold said that genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul. And so it is with Catherine Reed. To read her poetry is to enter a special dimension and to view a fabric of life that is both cruel and redemptive, bitter and joyful, a world that she views with unblinking accuracy and consistent compassion. Her poems go to the heart of the Black experience and at the same time transcend it. In Crossing Boundaries she explores her humanity and the pain and joy of being. The result is profound.