Alive to both "the clatter of the settled world" and "the half-light of forbidden places," Patricia Williams explores the intersections of memory and imagination. These poems glint and gleam with passion and loss.

--Sarah Sadie (Sarah Busse), author of a second full-length collection, We

Are Traveling Through Dark at Tremendous Speeds, co-Poet Laureate of

Madison, Wisconsin (2012-2015), Pushcart winner

Travel with Patricia Williams and her image-rich poems in The Port Side of Shadows. Experience "the last ride of childhood / on a merry-go-round" (Perils and Choices). Hear the "symphony of darkness" (Night Music), and feel the "sky-burials--spirits riding on columns of air" (Impermanence). This is a transformational journey in verse to uncharted destinations.

--Bruce Dethlefsen, Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2011-2012)

Patricia Williams' poems inhabit a liminal landscape, an in-between place where life and dreams meet, at the edges of consciousness. She travels to faraway places and back home again, exploring and discovering fresh insights along the way--about different cultures, phases of life, new and "long-past selves." I thoroughly enjoyed the journey as I read her poems.

--Elizabeth Tornes, author of Snowbound (Giiwedin Press, 2011), First Prize,

2012 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest, New Moon (Finishing

Line Press, 2013) and Between the Dog and the Wolf (Five Oaks Press, 2016)