A novel-in-verse, Esther is molded with the poet’s tools—among them sound and image, and the belief that the smallest increments of language can provide the grace to withstand, in the name of family, the onslaught of human failings and cruelty.
Prologue • Words • Garden • Big River • The Song of the Lark • Train • Our Bed is Green • Great Divide • Weeper • Sierras • Vuelva a mí • Queen of the Meadow • Acknowledgments
