Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill to far-flung Caribbean and Pacific

to far-flung Caribbean and Pacific islands and to the remote outposts in the Amazon

This myriad-voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment

Her most recent poetry collection is When Creation Falls (Meadowlark Books

so that we might learn astonishment / again

you feel like you're eavesdropping on your best friend's confessional and inquiries to the Divine

Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill to far-flung Caribbean and PacificA little girl asked her father, "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Tucking his child in bed, he answered with a fantastic story about a whale. A tale she wholeheartedly believed, until she didn't. He never talked about his war again. Coming of age during the Vietnam era, the daughter watched war play out on TV, listened to broadcasts of the draft on the radio, faced the mirror of a Vietnam Memorial engraved with names of the dead, joined the protest