The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems (Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry)

Some really gorgeous work here. A gem, and well worth the price.

This collection is both haunting and lovely. A voice that carries with me long after I put it down. Mennies crafts poems about sharp reminiscences and coming-of-age as woman in a world where the scars and lessons of her Jewish heritage collide with her present through the storytelling impulse:"Let's light a candle after darksmash a glass under it's husband's footcircumcise its wailing, red-facedsons, watch it multiplyinto a book."A poignant look at the power of narrative as a vehicle for survival, hope, and identity where one must "dwell in the stories we must always learn to tell."