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Product Description The poetic thought in these poems is never out of date and quite appealing to all readers. These poems show extraordinary and eloquent phrases. Review Christine Redman-Waldeyer's newest poetry collection is a journey through many nests: the habitats of robins and sparrows, the empty space of children grown and fathers gone, the shelter we seek from COVID. Luminous and evocative, the poems describe a landscape of diving shorebirds and rising ghosts, and sometimes ghosts who have become birds. Through lucid images and emotive language, the poems paint a complex world full of pain, beauty, grace, and loss. The power of these poems lies in the back-and-forth between the search for beauty and meaning and the discovery that there are only questions and no real answers. Reading this book is like finding a nest of one's own, a beautiful sanctuary to which I will return again and again. --Nancy Gerber, Ph.D., author of We Are All Refugees In Where We Nest, Christine Redman-Waldeyer offers a poignant collection of poems that consistently mediate the external landscapes of her experience with the internal terrain that drives her and each of us to understand what makes us who we are. These poems embody a sustained vision of where our search can find completeness, so aptly found in the book's title Where We Nest. --R.G. Rader, author of Kicking the Rain, founding editor of Muse-Pie Press In Where We Nest, Redman-Waldeyer writes poignantly about the joys and demands of home and family that nurture and challenge her. She explores her own heritage and her own home place along the Jersey Shore in all its natural beauty, even as she bears witness to the brutal power of the ocean. Redman-Waldeyer is a vulnerable, resilient poet who invites the reader to know the people and places she loves. With an eagle eye for detail, her poems consider quiet comforts and complicated losses that call us to consider our o