A life’s trials, tribulations, lovers and lessons are stitched together in this week’s poem The quilt’s a ragtag syzygy of everything I’ve been or done, a knotted spell in every seam, the stuff that ...

Maturity and experience earmark this first collection by a woman who didn't begin writing poetry until after age 40. The young bride of a reporter killed in Vietnam, her movement from not-so-innocent ...

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