VIABLE: Poems

To enter Julie Hensley’s Viable is not to step but to plunge… With Hensley’s guide, we travel through deftly rendered landscapes of the Great Plains and the rural South. We study the language of horses and historical figures. We probe marriage, miscarriage, childbirth, and child-rearing… We hear our own fears and wants echoing back to us from the deeply human center of this book.                                          —Julie Marie Wade, author of Postage Due and When I Was Straight