Reading Water: Poems Author|Lewis deSoto Heir to four centuries of

Heir to four centuries of discovering what the mind can do

this book meanders purposefully like a pure river sourced from a perennial spring of wisdom and will surely motivate kids to fall in love with the earth and—their own selves

the collection of essays and fictions Critique of Pure Reason

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Reading Water: Poems Author|Lewis deSoto Heir to four centuries ofFramed by the death of the poet's mother, Reading Water begins by considering how love is born then bound by the bonds of family and friends. These poems undertake a restless search for a self under constant evolution. Grappling with grief, familial and romantic love, and art using persona and ekphrasis, along with the traditional lyric this debut collection addresses Dean Young's crucial question: "Who doesn't sense an unbridgeable alienation between