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The Hook Was Very Sharp
Where does one find solace after the death of a father? Who will listen without judgment to grief's flood of fragile memories, insights, regrets? The young narrator of this collection addresses a meandering creek where she and her father spent quiet hours together fishing. "Creek" becomes the confidante who receives her questions and qualms. The Hook Was Very Sharp, examines a shy daughter's relationship with the hard-working, self-sacrificing, gambling, father at the center of her Italian American family. This collection, a family portrait drawn in words, is at once elegy, lament, and praise.
This book is illustrated by the author with seven abstract paintings influenced by the Habuku ink-splash style of Japanese painting.
Book Details
- Publisher: Abiquiu Press
- Publish Date: Feb 9th, 2022
- Pages: 114
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.27in - 0.29lb
- EAN: 9781732823723
- Categories: • General• Death, Grief, Bereavement• Parenting - Fatherhood
About the Author
Legato, Ginger: - Ginger Legato is a poet, artist and book designer. Her poems have appeared in American Tanka, Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2021, Heliotrope, Rubberreality, Seeds, The Magazine, Trickster, and Written with a Spoon: A Poet's Cookbook. She received a First Place Award for a single poem from the New Mexico State Poetry Society and is a winner of the Southwest Literary Center/Recursos de Santa Fe, Discovery Competition.Legato is well known as an interior book designer for the Penguin Poetry Series. She earned her BFA from the Pratt Institute, and studied sculpture at Parsons School of Design and welding at the Art Students League of New York City. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York galleries, the Brooklyn Bridge subway station, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her current work may be found on Instagram. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Praise for this book
"Ginger Legato's tribute to her father is fresh, clear admiration, bringing his generation of men back from the New York racetrack and bar and into poetry. When Legato performed the entire work in Abiquiu, New Mexico-I'll never forget it.... I loved being with her Italian father for a while and am glad the energy of his daughter persisted in bringing the performance onto the page."-Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate, 2010-12
"In poems so lean and carefully placed, Legato creates a work of art, a breathing mosaic, a river of memory. Poem by poem, a father-daughter history is wrestled with, revealed and memorialized. The Hook Was Very Sharp balances celebration, tenderness, conflict, and acceptance. There is no collection that compares to these charged, elegant poems."-Barbara Rockman, author of to cleave and Sting and Nest
"This brilliant book is a lifework- a brave and tender reckoning with childhood, family, and the legacy of love."-Morgan Farley, author of Name Yourself Feast
"In poems so lean and carefully placed, Legato creates a work of art, a breathing mosaic, a river of memory. Poem by poem, a father-daughter history is wrestled with, revealed and memorialized. The Hook Was Very Sharp balances celebration, tenderness, conflict, and acceptance. There is no collection that compares to these charged, elegant poems."-Barbara Rockman, author of to cleave and Sting and Nest
"This brilliant book is a lifework- a brave and tender reckoning with childhood, family, and the legacy of love."-Morgan Farley, author of Name Yourself Feast