But Still Music

<p>Anne Pitkin's third book <em>But Still Music </em>spans her childhood as a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South to the period of her grown daughter's death. The poems visit the disquieting contradictions of a southern childhood marked by honeysuckle and lightning bugs and the racist culture that was the air she breathed. A number of poems address the loss of her daughter. Still in the end as she says in the final poem. ''Tide <em>There you've been loves of my life./ There you've changed me one by one.</em></p>