“It is abundantly clear from the very first chiseled sentence of Gilda Morina Syverson’s crucial new memoir, A Healing Journey, that she is a poet, a very fine one, who not only feels, but witnesses everything and has the courage to forge it into inimitable language. With absolute candor and breathtaking cinematic imagery, at once aching and epiphanic she illuminates the emotional core of what it's like to stand on the earth with the abiding questions of all who have preceded her.”

~ Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14) and author of The 13th Sunday after Pentecost