Sitting in Lawn Chairs After a Complicated Day: Poems

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"In her debut collection, Marg Walker offers us the fruits of several decades of experience, growth, and reflection. We repeatedly encounter an individual voicing her delight in common experience and her attentiveness to those unique marks of character that draw us to one another deeply, and sometimes break us apart. Scenes recalled from childhood retain their mystery and convey the confusion and pain involved. Others poems recall the exuberance of early adulthood, when stargazing from the roof of a parking ramp was the height of ecstasy. Throughout the book's three sections Walker displays the qualities that first presented themselves to her as a child when, as she describes it, "you become true / to your first nature / speechless and primitive / attuned ...""-- Provided by publisher