Winner of the Colorado Book AwardWinner of the Willa Literary Award As heard on Public Radio Internationals TheWriters Almanac Full of music and evocative word ... » 

Winner of the Colorado Book AwardWinner of the Willa Literary Award As heard on Public Radio Internationals TheWriters Almanac Full of music and evocative word play Veronica PattersonsSwan What Shores? offers alluring poems varied in form and inventive inapproach. In language that is both precise and lyrical Pattersons work likemuch of the best poetry plumbs the human condition with depth wit and aboveall compassion. The poems offer fine surprises from the lyrical litany ofThe Riddle of My Want the stride of your eyes a summering of skin tothe unusual elegy Three Photographs Not of My Father to the mysteriesembodied in Where Are My Swans? All movement in their dreams is theirs that glidewithouthaste for what core of the universe has to hurry? SwanWhat Shores? marks the blossoming of a major poetic talent. «