Low-hanging Fruit
Greenway, Joanne LOW-HANGING FRUIT is an archaeological dig deep into the realm of an aging woman's memory. At times, the narrators of these poems may embellish or be guilty of "retrospective distortion"-yet, they strive to tell her truth. Truth: nostalgia for a coming of age during a time of growing injustice and violence, the bullying of the defenseless and the different, the warping effects of religion. Artifacts of joy, loss and love are exhumed in poems o...