Like Snow Upon Green

Jack Hitchner in his new collection Like Snow Upon Green carves through fiction and poetry the arc of a mans life: coming of age with a father scarred by the conflagration of World War II. Each one of these poems and stories sings in a different tone. From seven year-old Jennifer burying crushed Johnny jump-ups in a grave like her nanas to an elderly vet searching for his name on an honor roll of the dead the characters in Jack Hitchners collection of stories and poems interpret for us the permeable layer between life and death. In A Place for Waiting Hitchner writes Eben Sheldon understood the presence of empty windows. Hitchners gift is to help us understandthat presence as well.