Louie Galloway is a preeminent poet of place. That place may be the piney woods of Louisiana or the urban streets of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Wherever she has found herself, she has spoken in the stubbornly quiet, insistent, and maturing voice of a woman and an artist. Louie Galloways poems are the passionate and committed markers of an adventurous life, pointing the reader to the sure ground on which we all stand.David Eberly.