Small Rain

by Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker's sixth collection of poetry, Small Rain, is an exploration of the wheel of the year, the seasons that roll in a continuous circle and yet move inexorably forward. Here, gorgeous lyric poems praise poppies, mockingbirds, nectarines, mulch and compost, yet loss (stillbirth, cancer, emphysema), with its crow-black wings, is also always present. In poems that narrow in on the particular ("a cardinal twangs his notes of cheer; he has no...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944048633
• ISBN13: 9780944048634
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Purple Flag
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"