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Reviews for Drowning: A Poetic Memoir
by Nancy Henry
These are poems to make you care, to make you think of people you may know who are probably silently suffering these very deprivations but all the time it's been more convenient not to know. This poet says "to hell with shame" and champions truth with no holds barred, and with a manner artful but not crafty--in a voice beautiful in its rough truth, but not embellishing. They are poems to start a revolution of compassion. Read them.
Sample from Drowning: A Poetic Memoir
Griswold
"Fins, Ma, it has fins!" - stereo daughter chants, 1993
A roof rack redwoods could lie across
bench seats, vinyl blue
arm rests as wide as a thigh,
hood as long as their brother
a steering wheel round as the moon,
$800 and the frame was good.
It took more gas than they had money.
It fit the field hockey team.
It looked downright jaunty
with 15 inch whitewalls.
If they hit a tree no dent, no death
can't leave town - no gas.
Chevy Chase could drive it under an 18 wheeler
and live.
It was perfect.
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