In
Feast of the Seven Fishes
, Linda Lamenza uses both nuance and precise language to invite us into her Italian American childhood and how that childhood informs and colors her experiences as a woman, mother and teacher.
When it is dark and no one / cares where we are
, what can we come to understand about ourselves, one another and the world? This compelling collection reads like snapshots of moments in time; however, many of them speak to complex and universal questions about family and memory, patterns, time and resilience. Every poem inspires curiosity about
the shrapnel of childhood / that pressure cooker
and how we navigate our lives when we are released.
- Joan Kwon Glass, author of
Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms