Frogs in the Rain Barrel Greta Guzek these poems eloquently describe childhood

these poems eloquently describe childhood

his "Pygmalion / sculpture of boyhood hunger

Rob Winger brings readers another fine volume with "The Chimney Stone"

an assured debut

Frogs in the Rain Barrel Greta Guzek these poems eloquently describe childhoodDescription 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