Goodbye, Silver Sister, Jeanne Foster's second collection of poems, opens with a series of poems about a girl coming of age in pre-Katrina New Orleans, informed and haunted by the magic of the city. The powerful Pearl River forms the dividing line between adulthood and other worlds, both geographic and existential: "death, divorce, and the thousand other ways I would lose faith in the breastplate of love." The collection...
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