In this moving collection, a childhood darkened by a harshly critical family follows the poet into his adult world, persisting like “…winter hanging on/ into spring,†its “small hail†stinging every surface. Characterized by a wry wisdom, these haunted, evocative poems collapse the distance between past and present. With a stark, transcending grace, Joseph Green chronicles “Ordinary lives./ Ambitions spilling. Plans failing./ Dreams seeping out through the cracks.†Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate
In this moving collection, a childhood darkened by a harshly critical family follows the poet into his adult world, persisting like “…winter hanging on/ into spring,†its “small hail†stinging e...
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