God on His Haunches Ray Hsu POE014000-POETRY / Epic

POE014000-POETRY / Epic

a kind of deconstruction of the founding principle of the cliché

–Foreword Magazine

all manner of poetic hats while always avoiding drab lyrical sentiment

These are stylized

God on His Haunches Ray Hsu POE014000-POETRY / EpicDescription Diane Tucker writes from experience and "the sustaining power of memory" in this first collection of poems. She writes of falling in love with the wrong person: "For you I ride without a seat belt, willing to be thrown clear at first impact"; her daughter at four months, whose fingertips "are globes of amber salmon roe cool smooth and salty"; and growing up as an adopted child: "mystery breathes on my bare shoulders whispers between my