People expect that their lives move in majestic sweeps, but that's only because memory and legend work that way, but reality works in the small moments of our experience. "Too Heavy to Carry" explores those moments by focusing in close. This wonderful collection aims to name the evils that people live through: loneliness, betrayal, inadequacy, and loss. Dixon easily captures not just the glimpse of hope, but shows the agony and obstacles one must endure before she crawls out of the bottom of the well. This is a must for survivors of any variety--divorce, depression, domestic violence,...
People expect that their lives move in majestic sweeps, but that's only because memory and legend work that way, but reality works in the small moment...
Eva Braun was seventeen years old when she was first introduced to Adolf Hitler in 1929. Hitler took her on dates to the opera, to dinner and to the movies. He eventually purchased her a home where she could live with her sister free of her parents. This book, written in verse, sets out to explore this woman who stayed by Hitler until the bitter end.
Eva Braun was seventeen years old when she was first introduced to Adolf Hitler in 1929. Hitler took her on dates to the opera, to dinner and to the m...
This anthology commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Backwaters Press, a nonprofit literary publisher located in Omaha, Nebraska. Virtually every poet published by the press in its first two decades is represented here with two new, previously unpublished poems selected specifically for this volume.
This anthology commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Backwaters Press, a nonprofit literary publisher located in Omaha, Nebraska. Virtually...
