Critical Commentary:

“Renee Podunovich’s visions are transparent panes allowing the reader the warmth and light of a larger view. She returns from journeys beyond the daily world with medicine which explodes in us ‘with no limits, other than the filter of our hearts’. Her passionate words form conduits through which we can meet our higher selves.” Cynthia West, author, Rainbringer and The New Sun

“Reading poems like ‘Clearing,’ ‘Heart Filter’, is like listening to soulful jazz- as if ‘the shimmering, shining, shape-shifting/ light’ learned to play a grammar rag, just to cast ‘the memoir of itself’. Like the redwoods and aspens she studies, Renee Podunovich traces patterns; her consciousness and that of the trees, the ferns are one.” Steve Lautermilch, photographer, author, Mirror Light.

“She takes us traveling simultaneously inside and out; noting, reporting on observations of the mystical experience and the natural in the poetic company of her rational mind.” Mead Bullington, Certified Instructor Sheng Zhen Wuji Yuan.