Frogs in the Rain Barrel Greta Guzek FIC022000-FICTION / Mystery & Detective

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Rob Winger brings readers another fine volume with "The Chimney Stone"

—Adam Lewis Schroeder

these poems eloquently describe childhood

--Karen Solie

Frogs in the Rain Barrel Greta Guzek FIC022000-FICTION / Mystery & DetectiveDescription In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a "pool of still and nether depths whose mirrored surface was all." Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito's experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and