Sandra Rivers-Gill

Dignity

Arts & Literature

“The gravity of Anita Hessenauer’s Dignity is a catalyst for change. Its robust imagery amplifies and reverberates the complexities of multicultures and the shut voices of the vulnerable. A climate rooted in silence is fire, yet ‘the cactus blooms in the furnace.’ This collection weaves the sacredness and vigilance, indignity and hope. What interrogations Hessenauer employs [create] a provocative hybrid offering the power of perspectives through which our lens opens and closes like a prayer.”