"Everyone warns us off the rocks. / But what will keep us from the river?" Leigh asks in her debut collection, which pieces together a kind of mythology in which the surreal and celestial coexist with the realities of childhood abuse as an adult speaker grapples with its lasting emotional trauma. Rooted in a place of deep faith and bottomless compassion, Leigh's speaker struggles to remember, and to remind us all, "that to worship is to survive is to be / wholly human."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: 10/07/2014
ISBN: 9781935536499
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.02w x 0.36d

Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/2014 pg. 89