Jane Almost Always Smiles by H.E. Fisher

Jane Almost Always Smiles by H.E. Fisher brings the reader into a world of a girl fighting to survive sexual abuse in an educational environment that demands compliance, subjugation and above all silence. The reader longs to read on through this collection as they come face to face with a girl who needed the power to say no, but who was failed, as so many are, but systems of oppression and subjugation that allow for such violence.

Fisher presents a certain awareness within these poems that transforms words into a reality of their own;