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"Cesca Janece Waterfield writes the blues...Reading her book is like listening to a great radio station in the middle of the night when you can't sleep - you know someone is singing for you and you are singing with her. ...pays witness to good love and bad love and what we mistake for love." -Denise Duhamel "Stylistically, Waterfield is a direct descendent of Post Modernist Denise Levertov. Drawing deeply from a lifetime of musicianship, Bartab establishes early on a sort of subconscious soundtrack laced with blues...heartily recommended to anyone seeking strong work by new voices in contemporary American poetry." -Lady Janes’s Miscellany, San Francisco "A pitch-perfect reproduction of the fragmentary nature of memory... Gritty, desperate, passionate, and heartfelt, Bartab is a must-read." -Small Press Reviews "Like a postmodern New Testament, this ballad is full of parables and the flesh of language, stretched and taut over a body of lyric." -Chad Faries, Savannah State University "Evocative new novel in poems." -Philadelphia Stories "unfolds like a perfume, blasting with intoxicating top notes and settling into a low pulse of base notes...the collection's opening pulls the reader into the car in a whirlwind, early Springsteen-like. There are rest stops for sex, prayer, remembrance, and the gratitude and received wisdom of the survivor." -Vulgar Marsala Press Press for Cesca's Music: "Folky, only herself and her guitar. Her voice sounds folky too, but with a touch of the blues and the intensity of gospel. Her lyrics are downright stirring." -Rootstown Magazine, Antwerp, Belgium more press...