Searching for Bow and Arrows: Poems by Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer (Stone Soup Young Authors)

This collection of 28 poems by Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer won second place in Stone Soup Magazines 2019 Book Contest. Shrayers Searching for Bow and Arrows is about the weight of history-ones own personal familial history as well as the history of politics and nations-and a nostalgic longing for a homeland that both is and isnt home. In her spare formal poems Shrayer probes the thin veil between the past and present focusing on the natural world as a bridge between the two: Drops / of saltwater / arranged / like letters / on an ancient scroll.