The Claws In The Eiderdown

Poetry. Rochelle Theo Pienn's first collection, THE CLAWS IN THE EIDERDOWN is a book of 54 poems in 2 sections which Rebecca Pepper Sinkler describes as "sensual, vivid, grounded in nature...and grounded in the personal--probing pain, loss, loneliness and love." These are intimate poems that are not afraid to feel: "My body splits apart like reeds under/the plow. The truth, out there?/I find it in your skin/I see what you see/I burn my veil as an offering./Give me the truth, deeply." (from "The Harbour House") Hugh Ormsby-Lennon finds the work "mesmerizing," with "a distinct, inextinguishable voice that that transmutes physical into metaphysical, the spiritual back into the material."