Ocean of Clouds: Poems She guides us through the

She guides us through the crucial process of discerning which inherited narratives serve our growth and which ones limit our potential for healing and connection

and yet we also know that excess weight starves us of years and quality of life

at the darkest level

Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse

is mainstream

Ocean of Clouds: Poems She guides us through theIn his fourth book of poems, award winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach. In a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, with his characteristic long lined, rolling music, Hongo is alert to the possibilities of individual moments of perception and grace in the landscapes of his life, whether waiting for a ferry in Balboa after a writing workshop ("An oil slick from a yacht