These poems, like the café it celebrates, and the people who hang out there, are variously funky, funny, serious, original, alive, cozy, smart, silly, insightful, fantastical, spiritual, inspiring, well-crafted and celebratory. “The poetry is playful and moving. It resonates with the earnest search for, and finding of love and nurturing. The book is wonderful.” - Megan Rice, author of Black Mountain College: My Creation Myth and The Art of Mothering “Cafe Mimosa in Topanga is a lively, elegiac dance, full of love and healing.” -Aram Saroyan, author of Complete Minimal Poems, William Carlos Williams Award and Day and Night: Bolinas Poems “Jane Marla Robbins, poet and Topanga shaman, journeys her readers, as the cafe does its regulars, out of their hunger and loneliness and into fullness and happiness. The poems are elegantly crafted, smart and deep.” -Peter Angelo Simon, photographer, author of Big Apple Circus and Muhammad Ali Fighter’s Heaven 1974 “These are poems of Place, composed with deceptively perceptive observations, which makes them a pleasure to read.” -Michael C. Ford, author of Language Commando, Grammy nomination “The writing is nourishment. And moving. I want to go to the cafe — although I feel that I have already been there.” -Pamela Shaw, actor, Lucky Stiff and The Whistleblower “Throughout Cafe Mimosa in Topanga Jane Marla Robbins reminds us we’re all lucky enough to have places in our lives that rise from the prosaic to the poetic. It’s a place we all need.” -David Finkle, author of People Tell Me Things and The Man With the Overcoat “Reading Café Mimosa in Topanga, even for someone three-thousand miles away, is almost like sitting there, in a cozy spot, nursing a coffee, gazing at the paintings and other items of interest on the multi-colored walls, while keeping one’s eyes peeled for the regulars that are the heart and soul of this magical oasis in a desert canyon.” -Jimmy Roberts, poet, The New York Times, composer I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change “The poems are thoughtful, provocative and inspiring. I loved this book.” — Patricia Bosworth, Vanity Fiar contributing editor, author of The Men in My Life.