The fourth title in the Wings Press Whitebird Chapbook Series. Margaret Randall wrote of this book: Marian Aitches fishes for light in rivers, and rivers run through these poems. She fishes back through family history, dream, certitude, and over the...
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The fourth title in the Wings Press Whitebird Chapbook Series. Margaret Randall wrote of this book: Marian Aitches fishes for light in rivers, and rivers run through these poems. She fishes back through family history, dream, certitude, and over the south Texas landscape of her childhood. A poet who can write "A thousand years away, / I will be the bones / some anthropologist holds / up to the light, amazed / by the music they make" will surely have many books beyond this first stunning collection. This is for all readers who want to know "the tough sister, the one / who saved the others
Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; In the Stories; Remembered; A Mother's October; Winter Solstice; Rivers; Fishing for Light; At the End; Listening to Bach's Art of Fugue; Fall in the Hill Country; Spelling; Bones; When Absence is Presence; Joy; Distances; My Last Lithuanian Aunt; San Antonio Summer; The Painting; Grandma's Daughter; Double Overtime; Winter Roses; The Parakeet of Grief; Fishing the Last Time; White Light; Your Baby's Grave; Spirit Bundle for Diane; In the Mourning Store; The Bird's Journey; What We Know . . .; About the Author; Acknowledgments 38; Back Cover;
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