In the bone-dry land of mesquites and drought, Janice Whittington has found images that allow her to explore woman's place in West Texas and the world from the perspectives of daughter, wife, friend, and mother. Filled with fear and fire, joy and sorrow, dust and water; the poems risk stepping into air, striving to glide like hawks on thermals. "Into a Thousand Mouths is the account of Eve after the fall, after she follows her husband out of the garden...
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