Swimming with Shadows

By Ethna McKiernan

McKiernan's fourth collection returns to her earlier themes of loss --of her youngest son, of her father, and of the pervasive losses of the homeless population with whom she works. This new collection also addresses political wounds of a bygone America--the bombings of schoolgirls in Alabama the 1960's and the racially charged beating of Rodney King in the 1990's-as it presents poems that address the conflicts of today. Interspersed are poems of love, praise and joy. Ethna McKiernan has been twice awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board grant in poetry. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson Program for Writers. In an earlier life, she was CEO of Irish Books and Media.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912561441
• ISBN13: 9781912561445
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"