num_pages: 23
description: Poetry. The poems are an intense examination of birds, plants, animals with such titles Hawk, Snow Geese, Barn Owls, Punta Tumbo Penguins. Describing the wind over grass Terry "The tall bending grass on the hillside/ suddenly straightens, remains/ for moments each stalk perpendicular,/ then/ a sheet of reflected light. Patricia Terry taught literature at Barnard University of California, San Diego. A recent book, South of Iquitos, won the Frith Press chapbook competition.
language: English
title: The Weight of The Shadows
titlecomplete: The Weight of The Shadows
publisher: Red Dust