Frogs in the Rain Barrel Bob Williams Elizabeth Bachinsky plain-talks her way

Elizabeth Bachinsky plain-talks her way through the same gritty landscape that illuminated the poetry of her youth

destruction and most importantly

--Jim Bartley

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Frogs in the Rain Barrel Bob Williams Elizabeth Bachinsky plain-talks her wayDescription In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a "pool of still and nether depths whose mirrored surface was all." Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito's experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and