Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems

by James Owens

James Owens' stunning valediction, both for and forbidding mourning, slices with steely memory to the "wet bone." Stumbling with a boy's "ignorant gravity," Owens cannot right the "unbalanced accounts" of his miner father's sooty lungs, his parents' exhausted marriage--nor his own professed failings. Yet his keen eye in and of the natural world does lead to the scales balanced, if precariously--in belonging "on the brief earth," in parsing spring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1947504207
• ISBN13: 9781947504202
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"