ISBN: 1735269875 9781735269870

Category: Poetry / General

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"Of Water" is a chapbook of poems with a centerpiece of a heroic crown of sonnets. Carol Kanter didn't set out to write a group of pieces about water. But water must have some sort of draw on her, since when she looked through drafts of possible poems she had amassed over time, there they were. She did, however, set out to write the centerpiece Crown of Sonnets. She had stumbled on the form and it struck her as a challenge. But she had no subject matter that felt appropriate. Until she went to Ghana with friends who were engaged in building wells in rural villages. There everyone seemed so connected through the mission of improving lives that she felt the interweaving form might serve to honor them.