Losing the Ring in the River is more than a collection of poems--it is a novel, a history, a family memoir in poetic form, a grand moving story built of poems and joined with the intricacy of a spider's web. Saiser depicts three generations, Clara, Emma, and Liz, and in so doing she makes this experience part of our heritage and our collective mythology.--Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of Cinema Muto

Poet Marge Saiser . . . brings us the stories of three generations of western women. As always, Saiser's poems are forthright as well as lovely. As each generation here encounters the challenges of her life . . . she must accept life as an opportunity to attain freedom. Life in the natural world is hard but generative. Life prevails, as it must. Readers will rejoice, as they must.--Hilda Raz, Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series editor

Poet Marge Saiser . . . brings us the stories of three generations of western women. As always, Saiser's poems are forthright as well as lovely. As each generation here encounters the challenges of her life . . . she must accept life as an opportunity to attain freedom. Life in the natural world is hard but generative. Life prevails, as it must. Readers will rejoice, as they must.--Hilda Raz, Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series editor

Marge Saiser's poems reveal our inner lives, wide open as fields and prairie, filled with broken dreams, with wildness, with poignant restraint. They honor indomitable women who won't give up on imagination or on life.--Peggy Shumaker, author of Gnawed Bones

With details of remarkable grit and with acknowledgment of the importance of story to our lives, the connections between the women in this family unfold.--Neil Harrison, author of Back in the Animal Kingdom