<p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Riding atop grief's didactic waves, Rancourt skillfully writes in a variety of poetic forms that support the intimate melding of shared experience as healer, elder, and human being. Prose, lyric, ballad, couplets, and haiku inspired - Rancourt continues to push the boundaries of trauma. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Songs of Archilochus</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> is an odyssey of soul recovery over great distances, time, and place: a migration from moral injury to a momentary place of peace. It takes courage to age with grace. It takes courage to sing the songs that we have been given - but sing we must for that is how the healing is carried - that is how the stories take shape - how they become a part of history whether personal, societal, global, or Universal. </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Songs of Archilochus</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> reminds us that the vibration of human life knows no border, boundary, box or cage.&nbsp; Warrior. Poet. Lovers. Sing.</span></p>