In the preface Haki R. Madhubuti (Poet, Distuinguished Professor Chicago State University) writes, "There is a critical clarity of thought communicated in a blue black-born speech. [She is] a genuine poet, an artist of rare talent and spirit, who has poured her soul, imagination, originality and creative vision into these poems. Her poems require careful reading from all who relish surprises, subtle word play and an enthusiasm for life in their literature."