Along Pariseau's Way on prairie and at sea's edge, birds fly overhead. Nature, spirit, beauty, and memories of family break forth. They enter into mind and heart. The interventions are quiet and gentle, unexpected, disruptive, and as mysterious as two feathers falling from sky at his feet. They come and appear like moonlight/on lapping water, /scattering off/the cold backs/of silvery fishes/just beneath. His verses evoke, query, incant, and simply give him reason to ponder. Things permeate, enter communion--and stand in impalpable synchronicity. The kindness, nostalgia, sadness, and beauty of these poems are reasons to give Along the Way a read. There is a bonus in prose. . . . You see how struggle and travels in southern France and French Canada to find his identity and correct last name . . . harvested an
understanding of history, family, and life.-- Joseph A. Amato, author of over twenty-six books, including Dust, A History of the Small and Invisible, My Three Sicilies, and Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History

Scott Pariseau's poems are sharp-eyed and gracious. They engage both the daily fine points of the near-at-hand world and the ever-shifting interfaces of generations, history, memory, and simple wonder. You will remember these tender poems for a long time. Warm heart. Clear water.-- Merrill Gilfillan, poet, essayist, author of fiction and creative non-fiction, winner of PEN/ Martha Albrand award for Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains and the Western States Book Award for Chokecherry Places; his most recent book of poetry is Stars Seen Then.

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction.