Praise for Michelle Doege's Root of Light
Michelle Doege's collection shelters us like a beloved tree. Her poems are intimate, kind, precise, and make beautiful shapes on the page. Many draw her reader to consider how the shape of a tree can shape their own thinking about relationship, partnership, and the people who make up our homes, the places that give us our roots.
Heid E. Erdrich ~ award-winning poet, curator & teacher
A book-length love poem to Doege’s wife Vindu, Root of Light charts the journey of a twenty-five year relationship. Out of familial disruption and cultural difference—the “blue gods” of Vindu’s ancestry and the European “green” paganism of Doege’s Germanic ancestry— Doege’s poems nurture “a tangled web / of a world” that is both home and the desire for home, an ongoing work of love.
Sharon Thesen ~ renowned poet, essayist & teacher/mentor
I love this book by Michelle Doege! “Say beauty that splits your heart in two.” I love its fearless heart and its unapologetic heat! Home is truly everywhere and “Our entire life exists/ in one tree.” Read this book. Save your life. Save the earth.
Cary Waterman, poet, non-fiction writer & teacher/mentor
Michelle Doege’s story, “End of a Rainbow,” Caitlin Press (2017)
Michelle Doege’s poem, “Proceed With Caution” (2024) Cover Art: Robbie Gardiner
Michelle Doege’s poem, “Breathe,” Orange Lamphouse Studio (2022)
Michelle Doege’s poem, “Tonewood,” chapbook by broke press (2023)
Michelle Doege’s poem, “Evacuation [Order]” (2022)
Michelle Doege’s poem, “Ten Bells,” Museum London (2010)
Michelle Doege’s Video Poem, “Fields of Wheat,” Seedy Saturday - Farm Folk City Folk Conference (2021)