Review The Dreamed opens with a brother walking into a river, and the reader follows. "Can't you make the river weave between your fingers?" the brother asks. In this deeply elegiac and heart-strong collection, Nancy Devine affirms again and again that the current of memory and dream exist interwoven through the mythos of family, "if only / you have the gills or guts to breathe it." Within the struggle to make sense of tragedy, confusion and buoyancy carry the healing forward, lit by "a sun in love with and afraid of us at the same time." Mother and daughter, father and brother . . . . Devine's rich and well-crafted voice explores the space "between the waters of self and what's beyond," and the reader swims within the story which transforms us too." BRENT GOODMAN is the author of Far From Sudden (2013 Black Lawrence Press), The Brother Swimming Beneath Me (2009 Black Lawrence Press), and two chapbooks, Trees are the Slowest Rivers (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press), and Wrong Horoscope (Thorngate Road), which won the Frank O'Hara Award. Provocative yet familiar. Twenty-five years ago Nancy Devine introduced me to poetry. Real poetry. Poetry finely crafted, whispering and smooth, layered and full in a content that stretches beyond the convolution of modern free-verse. With nothing cliched in sight, she takes us someplace unknowable, and leaves us there un-abruptly, for a bit, to wonder and explore, only to bring us on the other side into the light of knowing. Nancy Devine's poetry pulls us into a state of "known," not in black and white conclusiveness but through a conjuring of snapshots and imagery so pure, so clean and so familiar, that we recognize and remember the brilliance of ourselves. LURLYNN FRANKLIN is a poet, artist and educator. She is the author of Fabled Truths: Self Portraits and Poetic Essays. About the Author Nancy Devine, a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, is a writer whose poetry, short fiction and essays have appeared in a number of online and print literary magazines and journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, Midwestern Gothic-A Literary Journal, Stirring-A Literary Collection, Berfois, Referential Magazine and Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. She loves to cook, garden, and figure things out. She teaches high school English in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she lives with her husband and their rambunctious rescue collie.