What were the indigenous beliefs and traditional ways of life of Old Europe? How can descendants of European immigrants create a relationship with the lands of their origins and honor those who lived there long before them?
This fictional collection of narrative poetry and short prose, inspired by the author’s ancestral heritage and by historical events, tells a powerful story about how the living land provides and about what survives through generations across time and place.
This book radiates the magical and the truthful. The mythic voice, as I call it, drew me into the landscape and era. I found Garnet's story thin and perhaps rushed. It lacked the tone and rhytme of Oma's and Agne's stories.
I consider this book as short-form fiction. It is labelled as a combination of poetry and pose. In this regard there are 'chapters' that could stand alone as a prose poem.