Snake Handling for Beginners

With a fearless exuberance Sandra Kasturi’s poems incite our imaginations to romp through thickets of bristling language, to soar off to strange worlds, new and old, on pterodactyl wings, immerse in the lore of the Sciences and of SF, and take bathysphere dives into fabled zones where monsters both terrible and sympathetic do dwell. They revel in extended vocabulary and verbal acoustics, with witty allusions and wordplay galore, generating spellbinding perspectives. And while adventuresome and fun-loving, they also bravely convey apt concern with our human frailty and our planet’s fate.  —Allan Briesmaster, author of Later Findings and Elsewise