Scud Clouds

Scud Clouds is wonderful. With clarity, honesty, and marvelously telling detail, these two gifted poets evoke the depths and complexities of their continuing life together after David is diagnosed with an incurable brain disease. While confronting darkness and loss, these side-by-side poems are also full of love, warmth and laughter. Readers who have known or cared for someone facing dementia will find support and comfort in this accessible and profoundly moving collection.

--Susan Allen Toth

When David Keller was diagnosed with a rare form of dementia, he and his wife Eloise Bruce entered strange new territory, yet, being poets, they kept on writing. The gift of their poems, which are neither collaborations nor strict call and response but rather a subtler sinuous pas de deux, is to invite us in. Generous, philosophical, witty, tender, and heart-breaking, these poems are not so much about disease as they are about the divagations of the mind--among the odd disappearances and reappearances of memories, through dreams, and amid the omens of ordinary life. Thus, they also speak piercingly to us about the work of the heart to endure and find joy wherever it can, while it can.

--Jeanne Marie Beaumont