“Rumi famously extended the invitation:
‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there…’
Sandy LeonVest’s poems convey readers to that deathless acreage. But her poems also limn the urgencies of our age…a field of mortification spread before the precipice of extinction, both of LeonVest’s own besieged mortality but also of our collective, human trajectory towards annihilation. There are poems that inflict beauty, as good poems are known to do. Sandy’s work is plangent with beauty — but it is also brave, for she dares to send dispatches back from what Lorca termed, “the beating heart of the monster of the world.”
– Phil Rockstroh, poet, author and social critic
“Sandy LeonVest is not only a journalist, activist, poet and musician, but a global citizen. To effectively frame the problems one must understand the difference between sympathy and empathy, between apology and remedy, between rationalization and critical thinking, between the arrogance of the present and the fragility of life, and between emotional responses and deliberate methodical activism. A few of us have that understanding but lack the talent to put it into research, writing, poetry and music. Sandy LeonVest has that talent. And for that I am very grateful.”
– Chuck McCune, Founder of Solar Works and Boycott Ecocide
“Sandy LeonVest is a Poet. Her words are transformative. Her poems fearlessly take up the cause of the soul through her powerful poetic energy, which speaks to the individual’s loneliness, even as it holds out the promise of new beginnings. As the reader peels away the often-dark layers of her words, we find sorrow, light and the possibility of redemption. It is no wonder we long to go on this journey with her … to remember where we come from and where we are heading. In offering this prohetic glimpse into the eternal and transcendent parts of ourselves, Sandy LeonVest offers a divine blessing – an opportunity to bond and connect with one another in the incarnate world, and perhaps to make it a better place for the future generations.
“Sandy’s soul sings and we listen intently.”
– Indira Krishnamurti Pradhan