num_pages: 61
description: Gladys Cardiff is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee, and a member of the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Her small book, To Frighten a Storm, from Copper Canyon Press, won the Washington State Governor’s First Book Award in 1976. These are poems from a mature and wise consciousness that understands loss, grief, and the value of the unassailable “solaces we yearn for.” One emerges from Cardiff’s intense, complex meditations with a renewed sense of both the durability of the human spirit and its potential.
language: English
title: A Bare Unpainted Table
titlecomplete: A Bare Unpainted Table (New Issues Press Poetry Series)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 6
publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose