“Jewelle Gomez’s poems are like street maps, interconnecting families, tribes, communities and celebrating those routes that link her to each. San Francisco’s historic fleet of streetcars glide through; friends arrive as well as history makers, legends, sisters. This book is a gathering, a true collection and recollection, of loves and Lovings, of heartbreaks and souljoys, of the lost and the restored. She is every daughter, every grandmother, every woman in this collection: a beautiful tree, its branches reaching to the sky.”