Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom

In Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom Rebecca Aronson combines myth and memory history and landscape dream and the everyday in arresting painterly poems that sweep the reader beyond the ordinary. With a practiced hand Aronson crafts shapely poems in which no word is wasted. In fact nothing is wasted and Aronson's poems redeem all manner of powerful images and experiences from time's grasp forming a new mythology out of the raw material of her life and imagination.   Rebecca Aronson's first book Creature Creature won the Main-Traveled Press poetry contest and was published in 2007. She also received the 2010 Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner. Aronson's poems have appeared in Tin House the Georgia Review Cream City Review Mas Tequila Review the Paris-American and Quarterly West among other places. She lives in New Mexico where she teaches writing facilitates a community writing group and coordinates a visiting writers series for Central New Mexico Community College.   "Rife with hunger