Judith Bowles — They Spoke of the River - with David Keplinger — at Conn Ave

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Drawing from narrative traditions and influences such as Mary Oliver and James Wright—two beloved poets of Ohio—as well as the ghazals of Rumi and the plain spoken wisdom of Robert Frost and William Stafford, poet Judith Bowles traces back the voices and oral histories of her Ohio roots, following the river of their words. Her third collection of poetry, They Spoke of the River https://politics prose.com/product/they spoke river poems judith bowles is less memoir in verse than reliquary of the American experience, one which uses history, childhood, marriage, and elegy as rite and container. In the manner of Thornton Wilder's stage manager in Our Town , here the past, present, and future fold over each other, as Bowles offers tough attention, all culminating in a volume…

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