In Velvet: New and Selected Poems

I love Jeanne Bryner's poetry for the way it pulls me our of being lost in relentless abstract thinking and returns me to the real world of nature and people who know how to live and work in it. Jeanne sees and feels the actual world and also meanings and metaphors, and then shares her vision and her feelings in language that for me brings the world "health" to mind and then becomes love, of the most generous kind. Love, strength and beauty radiate from Jeanne's poems as, indeed, they do from herself, personally. -Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks, and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky