by  James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
Wisconsin Bookwatch
November, 2001


  Fitts writes with an observational, deeply personal style which blends her own feelings with fine images in Licking The Bones Dry. When I arrive in my cumulonimbus/ robe and release my thunderhead, things/ begin to happen in your house. She is perhaps at her best when writing in the third person: it's here that her metaphors and observational skills move away from the deeply personal to interact fully with her environment: A mist of light shines through the window/ on the slats of books making their home/ on his shelves.