Prodigal

"From the deepest place in us, Anne Caston's work could turn stone to sound. Prodigal is richly lyrical-so filled with love and legend that we say "what kind of soul does it take to write such poetry?" Maybe God speaks through Caston about humankind's self-inflicted wounds and misplaced humanity; for here are the characters left by Faulkner's deep south; here is the phraseology touched by Dylan Thomas' music. Our worst and our best parts are here. I will never stop reading this book." -Grace Cavalieri, Producer: "The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress" Chair: The Marfield National Book Award for Writing In the Arts "Explosive, Anne Caston's poems of spiritual and bodily devastation-we the living risk the "grenade of any almost / ordinary day: pin pulled." These gritty poems of witness lead us again and again to attend the wounded and dying, until both poet and reader must consider "suffering / and God's part in it." Love, like belief, is unreliable, painful-and ultimately all we have. These burnished poems tell harsh and necessary truths." -Peggy Shumaker, Former State Writer of Alaska & author of 9 books, including Toucan Nest and Just Breathe Normally