I was cleaning and reorganizing my poetry shelves and every time I see this cover I just have to sit and admire it for many moments. I read a draft of the manuscript the year it won the NPS and it turned into a beautiful book. It’s a fabulous feeling, to see the raw poems and pages of a project come to fruition. I’m sure I’ll feel something similar when Pear Slip comes out later this year.
Come to think of it, Ray had an idea for a limited edition box where the poems would be indivdiually printed on cards and read in whatever order you wanted…I wonder whatever came of that?
The abbess is still my favorite speaker in the sequence. Check out her speeches to her sisters.