John Reid Currie's This Onion Snow is a melodic and inviting exploration of
the universal themes of place, loss, and the passage of time. Currie's poetry
wraps around its subjects like an illuminating cloak, and we see into a
mother's memory loss or the fingered structure of a bat wing. Currie evokes
sometimes-muddy landscapes with deeply felt portraits that range from
humorous to the maddening. Some lines sing like elegies: "this beauty we
give ourselves." This Onion Snow is a vivid and intimate collection, one that
gives readers a felt sense of our fluctuating relationship with place and time.
--Cynthia Yoder, Author, Crazy Quilt: Pieces of a Mennonite Life, Poetry, Art, , John Currie| | 44PAGES