Frogs in the Rain Barrel

by Sally Ito

In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a pool of still and nether depths/ whose mirrored surface was all.

Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito's experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and Japan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889711607
• ISBN13: 9780889711600
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Nightwood Editions
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.7" x 8.7"