Breath of Eden no image why can't everyone

why can't everyone

it caresses the wounds we visit upon our flesh and soul in an attempt to serve the urges of the body's largest organ--the skin that covers and defines us

and to everyone else Amy is officially dead

Young Black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead

Breath of Eden no image why can't everyoneIn these lush, finely wrought poems, Jim Kangas reaches back into childhood and forward to death, to show us how desire, unquenched and unquenchable, becomes the axis of our lives. Here, we are exalted and crushed by beauty what is always lost to us and always "sprout[ing] up perennial as wild carrot." Benjamin S. Grossberg