American tradition lives.
Michael S. Harper Thiel disperses the silence of those who were the oppressors and takes responsibility for the wrongs into the present. Miraculously, the poems do not plunge into utter despair. Recommended for general collections. Just as whales echolocate to navigate their way around objects, Diane Thiel uses her poetic voice to echolocate through the various landscapes of myth, consciousness, and the physical world. Folded into the layers of landscape are aural echoes of meter and rhyme that guide Thiel's poems through the hollows of loss, the search for lineage and love, and the personal and societal ruins of war.