Whether considering the simplicity of a butterfly in flight or the terror of a cancer diagnosis, Heidi Greco confronts the world head-on, yet always with the fresh eyes of the stranger in our midst. The issues she addresses belong to the world; the settings she employs are international.

At times funny and irreverent, these are pieces that dissect relationships, poems that delve as easily into the mysteries of nature as they do into the intricacies of daily living - encounters we immediately recognize. But whether serious or fun in their approach, her penetrating and unsentimental eye is always there, steadfast on the goods.

Praise for Rattlesnake Plaintain:

BC Poetry in Transit selection (poem from the book displayed on Vancouver city buses)

"In the beauty of the language and the striking images, there is a pervasive sadness, a sub-text of depression. ... Rattlesnake Plantain is a collection of poems about loving, not being loved. Baudelaire understood." (Prairie Fire)

"This is a wonderful book. There isn't a poem in it that doesn't give the reader that sweet tingle of 'wow,' whether it's for the insight or the language. Unlike, in one of the poems, the three yellow plums 'just gone/past their perfection,' these poems are at their very best. Savour them." (Leona Gom)

"Heidi Greco takes us back to the origins of poetry in sex and the garden. A delicious mix of paradise and sin." (Robert Kroetsch)

Heidi Greco is a longtime resident of Surrey, British Columbia, where she has been involved as a literary activist. She writes in many genres. Her essays and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers. Her novella, Shrinking Violets, came out in 2011. Her poems have been included in many anthologies: Practical Anxiety is her third book of poetry. She occasionally leads workshops on a range of topics from ekphrastic writing to chapbook making. She enjoys puttering in the kitchen and in a range of crafts and delights in foraging for edible tidbits.

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