THE DIVIDINGS takes the reader on a journey from "setting out" to "crossing over," with junctures along the way that demand or invite attention and decision. "Kimberly L. Becker"s THE DIVIDINGS threads a substantial journey of truth and challenging matters, richly invoking Blue Ridge crests to shoulder balance of parallel planes at either side. Becker deftly secures the way in half-hitch knotted lead trails while tying branches down to bend them supple, mapping out our course-way through decisions she must make. It is cartography, this book, every area experience gives narrative steeped in poetic device with the capacity of harboring human in the between. This is a volume that brings me back where I am most home and takes me unexpected places in the quick flight of return. This invitation is a mountain of verse, well worth the climb. A beautiful work."-Allison Hedge Coke