"There are images of food that string like beacons throughout the book, wonderful foods from two cultures, the speaker's Armenian grandparents on one side, and her Irish grandmother on the other. There is a teller of fortunes with coffee grounds, faeries, a banshee, and Halloween spirits. Readers will find themselves satiated with tastes and smells, and myths and fables gleaned from an American childhood enriched with deep roots in both cultures."

Lori Desrosiers
typing with e.e. cummings
Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak
Publisher, Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace.co.


"Reardon's poems are elegiac in the unfolding of life in its multitudinous everydayness. Here you find her immigrant parents' pasts expressing themselves in the everyday habits and rituals of "old country" and their assimilation into an American present that both distorts and keeps them alive as well as allowing Reardon to express them in delightful and engaging cadences. Enjoy."

Mu Soeng
Trust In Mind
Heart Sutra