Dawn Leas’ I Know When to Keep Quiet is a road trip through that dangerous landscape – childhood. New Jersey, New Orleans, Texas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, in poems that are rich with specific detail, she captures a time in a life and in a culture. “Trapped/ in a parent’s pipedream” but ever on the lookout for a “one-way passage to writing [her] own story,” in an unsteady world Leas steadily charts her own way toward adulthood, and the invention of home.
Christine Gelineau, author of Appetite for the Divine and Remorseless Loyalty
Dawn Leas’ I Know When to Keep Quiet is a road trip through that dangerous landscape – childhood. New Jersey, New Orleans, Texas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, in poems that are rich with specific detail, she captures a time in a life and in a culture. “Trapped/ in a parent’s pipedream” but ever on the lookout for a “one-way passage to writing [her] own story,” in an unsteady world Leas steadily charts her own way toward adulthood, and the invention of home.
Christine Gelineau, author of Appetite for the Divine and Remorseless Loyalty