-- Redefining Beauty --
"We have never seen a book like this for those going through cancer or those with loved ones in the fight. The poems are powerful, playful and genuine. Anyone who knows Karla will immediately recognize her outgoing personality shining through the words, even in the darkest poems; those who don't know her will sense that 'survivor' is not strong enough to describe her. Try 'warrior' instead."
Scott Wiggerman
Lead editor for Dos Gatos Press
"Imbuing her poems with the intimacy, candor, and unfiltered emotional honesty of a diary, Morton clasps her reader's hand and walks her through all five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance."
Larry Thomas
2008 Texas State Poet Laureate
"Karla K. Morton is perseverance personified."
Dallas Morning News
"Redefining Beauty declares a universal manifesto for the rage to live."
Michael Price
Arts editor for the Fort Worth Business Press
-- Wee Cowrin' Timorous Beastie
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"The epic poetry of Karla Morton… the exquisite music of Howard Baer and the haunting photography of Walter Eagleton are combined into a lush, romantic experience. This is a work you will want to listen to all in one sitting. The story, the words, the music will carry you to a place that is all too rare in this world of over-analyzed and non-accessible poetry. This is magic and sensual fog and eternal yearning in the style of Shelley and Byron.”
Alan Birkelbach
2005 Texas Poet Laureate
“There are no words to describe how powerful this is! It's a veritable happening that sweeps you away and holds you in its clutches until it's finished with you, and at the end you shed some real tears….it's that powerful. What a tribute to culture and poetry worldwide.”
Gerald Hausman
Award-Winning Author and Storyteller
"Together, the music and verse are surprisingly visual. Mr. Baer has a light touch, adding just a throb of drums to suspenseful verses and dipping into murkier tone colors when the action turns dark. He uses bagpipes, strings, percussion and even accordion to shroud the story in mist, soak it with rain or let in the light."
Dallas Morning News
July 19, 2007
Karla K. Morton Wows 'em at
Community Arts Center
BY MICHAEL H. PRICE
September 17, 2007
“Listen to this piece just once, and I'm sure that you will listen to it again and again.”
Carl Peterson
Scottish Folksinger
"I love it! It tells such a story. It takes the listener on such a voyage. It is supremely evocative."
David Greenberg
Author
“Wonderful work like this just doesn't come along that often."
Gary Pattison, Owner
The Old Hastings Gallery
Ontario, Canada
