Through hard-won religious commitment, Jane Tyson Clement’s poems rose from feminine eloquence, in the manner of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to something closer to universal:

‘Too late we break the siege
of the close-bastioned heart
and find the city starved,
dry to the bone, and dark.’

This beautiful homage to Jane Tyson Clement and her poetry, which will continue to resonate with readers and, through Becca Stevens’s compositions, music lovers, also celebrates the kind of artistic collaboration that spans time and opens us to our own ‘heart’s necessities.’

The poetry is brilliant, and it’s inspired Becca to write stunning music.