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Even the Least of These presents the work of a poet and a printmaker responding to the small and often overlooked moments of our daily lives and reflecting upon the significance of experience and memory. The result is a thoughtful and often joyful collection of poetry and prints that celebrate an awareness of the world around us and reflect on past experiences, lessons learned (or not).

In "Never the Whole Story, " the past is never past, and the present comes filled with the miracle of small gestures--singular moments that have the power to transport the mind from one geographic place to the next, one emotional world to another. Memory is incomplete, events unfold from multiple perspectives, and secrets unspool from the ordinary.

Skeen (English/Michigan State) writes poetry with an academic edge: Allusion and trope are her dominant motifs, and she understands the literary power of the elegy. Sexual personae, however, seem more important to her than do literary identities, and much of the volume is organized around gender themes - of female alienation, mainly - that have a very dated 1970s feel to them. In many of the poems ("Short Story, " for example), there's an unsp...

The Resurrection of the Animals explores the trinity of the natural world, the humans adrift in it, and the animals that accompany them. Although each of the five sections centers on a particular theme, motifs of change, loss, cycles, and transformation thread through the collection, weaving the parts into a unified whole.Individual sections focus on: the seasons of the year, and by extension, people's lives, the power of memory and its limita...