Perie Longo's poems, in BAGGAGE CLAIM, cast a look at the familiarity of her early life before she journeys forward into unfamiliar territory, loss of her husband, the insecurity of security, war, and the politics of survival before she returns home at the edge of her field. Much is discarded, and what has always had profound meaning is claimed, with clearer vision and even appreciation for advancing age, gifted with grandchildren who teach her other ways to fly. "Perie Longo's poems are simply-but never too simply-magnificent. One of the finest is entitled 'The Familiar,' and she does frequently defamiliarize familiar situations or surroundings, but she also assesses the shock. Her intelligence, sympathies, music-making, and imagery are welded by experienced craft into seamless products of a true poet's art. You may be about to fall in love."-Gerald Locklin "These poems look beyond the self in order to assemble more complex, democratic definitions of it. Whether examining her own...

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