Floodwater Quitab Editions The subject matter is as

The subject matter is as broad as the Self

Gloria Mindock writes a gritty

we are not maps

winner of the 2012 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

It is hungry life swimming through your head or writhing through your gut—damned brave life

Floodwater Quitab Editions The subject matter is asConnie Post writes there are lost fish swimming at our feet and indeed these poems are filled with the losses of a lifetime. Yet time and again, Connie has the courage to reach for healing. In a poem in which she adopts a lost dog, she observes, how forgiveness finds a small edge a thin slat to glide through, and in A Road of my Own she affirms that she wants to finally breathe the dust of my own footsteps. In Incantation, one of the final poems, she