Slopes to the River
| Author: | Bassein, Beth | |
| Year: | 1996 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-2753-8 978-0-7734-2753-2 | |
| Price: | $39.95 | |
Poems of laughter, nostalgia, and terror permeate these poems about family, growing up, coping in the public arena, and surviving catastrophe. Subjects range from whales and skulls to beggars, students, a sick chicken, whiskey, and Saint Theresa.