Deanna Ferguson is the author of ddilemma, Rough Bush , and The Relative Minor. She is one of the editors of Vancouver's estimable BOO Magazine and the small press Tsunami Editions. Oh, how I've schemed for years to bring Deanna to Small Press Traffic, my fingers worn to the bone counting the miles between B.C. and San Francisco. Her poetry is extremely dense and yet inviting; it's woven like a web of spidery filaments into a radar dish of primitive and advanced sensation. Over the past few years I've watched her reputation mount from a simmer to a full boil. It may be December but this will be the hottest night of the year!

December 5, 1997