Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill Her most recent poetry collection

Her most recent poetry collection is When Creation Falls (Meadowlark Books

This myriad-voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment

you feel like you're eavesdropping on your best friend's confessional and inquiries to the Divine

to far-flung Caribbean and Pacific islands and to the remote outposts in the Amazon

If society knew her secret people would call her a monster a beast a freak of nature

Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill Her most recent poetry collectionA little girl asked her father, "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Tucking his child in bed, he answered with a fantastic story about a whale. A tale she wholeheartedly believed, until she didn't. He never talked about his war again. Coming of age during the Vietnam era, the daughter watched war play out on TV, listened to broadcasts of the draft on the radio, faced the mirror of a Vietnam Memorial engraved with names of the dead, joined the protest