John S. Thornton

The House of Metaphor

Arts & Literature

“Early in life, nature called to Pamela Cranston and sang. These poems show she has an ear for it, a studied gaze—an unhurried heart. She listens to people too, no one stereotyped, each incomparable, sent to her as if a poem. Cranston has the gift of paying attention, close and rapt, and then translates what she hears into poetry, helping us to hear and see— to become more human, more alive, somehow in the heart of God.”