Goodreads asked Heidi Baker:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Heidi Baker From Renee Angelah, the friend I dedicated it to. She asked me what I want to write, and challenged me to make a second collection of poems my next book. I had never approached poetry so systematically. How strange it was to draft a poem knowing ahead of time I might place it between a front and back cover and say to whoever would listen, "These poems have value. Here is my book." To write them, I had to let myself drop down into the shared space between this world and the next, listen as I always havem and forget a considered destination. I think it worked out well.

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