author of The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings and Word Painting
clarity and calm that comes with knowing where you're going
" - Thom Nickels
We had an easy baby with our first so I was shocked to find myself anxious and teary with a baby that wouldn't sleep and was breast feeding hourly
This unbound book is held inside a fine manuscript box
The Birthday of the Dead and Stew Thornley author of The Riddle SongWinner of the Fourth Annual Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize A deft reimagination of the fable, The Birthday of the Dead is dark, rich, and immediately accessible, capable of conjuring tears, laughs, and both earth shattering and life affirming revelations. Selected by Bob Hicok, The Birthday of the Dead won the fourth annual Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize. Debut collection of poems that is stark, bleak, funny, bizarre, lacerating,