Tell Me The Story Again

<p>In her latest collection of poems<em> </em>Elizabeth Cunningham takes an imaginative leap into a magical world that is also palpably real a once-upon-a-time place that could exist just after our own time or long ago. Here we meet a motley assortment of people a temple sweeper a sword woman a morose fool a merry drunk an enigmatic ancient dreamer among a host of others. Human voices mingle with those of animals—the mouse who thinks it’s an elephant a flying pig—and also the voices of river rain tree and stone. Through songs dreams and conversations a story emerges or many stories woven into one. Cunningham’s hypnotically beautiful language draws us into this story one we may dimly remember and long to hear again.</p>