"A steely eye and a tender heart. These poet/photographers have both and know how to employ them to turn these pages into poignant moments, trekking along the Camino and allowing us to 'breathe the / mercy of the ages' along with them. These poems last beyond their 'moments' and remind us of the amazing buoyancy of the spirit."

-Nance Van Winckel, author of Sister Zero

"Writers Katherine January and Rebecca Ring walked the Camino de Santiago in 2019. Their plan of returning the following year was derailed by COVID, so instead they wrote paired poems. Dreams of Passing Fire offers a 'refuge of friendship/sheltering' as well as the wisdom of knowing 'many paths, but only one/at a time.'"

-Natasha Saje, author of The Future Will Call You Something Else

"Though every ounce packed for walking the Camino must be considered, Katherine January and Rebecca Ring's collaboration deftly carries divorce, friendship, a gone sister, curving roads, a hive-shaped house, field-trip children, a wedding party, an iron roof rooster, almonds, stork nests on a belfry, pre-pandemic twenty-to-a-room sleeping, a dream of multiple Marys, headlamps for dark mornings 'on the road before birds, ' shared laundry lines, calendula seeds, cairns, 'clotted sheep / around the moon, ' an alchemical cocktail, a stone alligator under a saint's skirt, a labyrinth. These wandering poets traveled 'outside the orb of the familiar' to experience how pilgrimage empties and replenishes, like spent sunflowers with 'no gold left in their faces / but when we looked // all we saw was gold.'"

-Rebecca Hart Olander, author of Uncertain Acrobats

"The dynamic friendship in these poems offers shared adventure, shared pilgrimage, that deep kind of travel that leads inward, a journey shared in which one being mixes with another, the substance of body and spirit. Even in parting after the journey, each friend carries inside themselves a love transformed by the road."

-Joel Long, author of Lessons in Disappearance