Marigram Quitab Editions Jones asks: “…what can we

Jones asks: “…what can we carry but a chance // to remember how a man is a lantern / lowered into the earth

one poem reminds us

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and echoes the writers who came before her—don’t be surprised if you hear Emily Dickinson

Marigram Quitab Editions Jones asks: “…what can we"Eye sockets of a whale, salmonberries, rocky shoreline and seawall, crows and goldeneye, moon and tides, barnacles, dogwinkle, and limpet, krill and kelp, deer, even a mink there is such rich imagery in Vivian Faith Prescott's Marigram that I feel physically present at her coastal Southeast Alaska fishcamp while reading these poems. Prescott is deeply immersed in her natural surroundings, and I applaud both her commitment to place and her exquisite