Dreamers

Garrison's poems honor the eternal human impulse to reach toward something just out of grasp. Written in the early twentieth century, these verses explore what it means to be a dreamer in a world that often punishes hope. Her language is direct but musical, plainspoken but aching with feeling. She writes about dreams not as fantasy but as necessity, the thing that makes bearable the long nights, the impossible distances, the loves that may never be returned. There is melancholy here, certainly, but also a stubborn grace. These are poems for anyone who has ever wanted something so badly it hurt, and kept wanting anyway.