“The poems in Cynthia Woodman Kerkham’s Water Quality wash over the reader’s psyche like a blessedly cool drink poured down a parched throat. Alive with a keenly attentive inquiry, driven as much by generosity and wonder as by a muted rage, these poems, delicate and fierce by turns, rinse the grit from our eyes, allowing us to better see what water, in all its forms, is to us - and what, to our peril, we let run down the drain.” Anita Lahey, author of While Supplies Last and Fire Monster
