Riverwalkers

by Dave Wright

Riverwalkers recounts the creation of the world through the life of a little water bug, who finally grows tired of walking on water. It is a cycle of rural myth poems. This collection is concerned with the process of life, birth through death. It concerns itself mainly with the nature of death, and how we as human beings come to terms with the death of a loved one, all the while preparing ourselves for own death. But this cycle does so in a very natural, imagistic way. It strives to accept death as a natural, beautiful necessity of life.

56 pages, Paperback

First published December 13, 2013

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Reviews

[Mike W. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dave's book is beautiful and difficult. I have read it through a number times and find new little stories that I missed in prior readings. He understands how to mix old fables and folk tales to breathe a language that is undeniably "Dave Wright".

[Amanda Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome book you are amazing!!!!!!!

[Juliet Escoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dave Wright's debut volume of poetry is full of rich sensory details and adept turns of phrase. The lines and the sentences sparkle and pop. The poems are beautiful and summery and warm, but there is something haunted in their beauty, something haunted and scary and dark. Read this book if you want something to savor that will stick with you long after the book is finished.