Echoes of a River: Poems of New Orleans and Beyond

A journey through layers is the progression Gordon Walmsley describes in this collection. One of the layers is the home of his birth and of his childhood, New Orleans, itself a place of many layers and obscurities. But there are others. There is the complexity of the drama of this world "as though what transpires/ were a play solely for my benefit,/ as though there was something I was supposed to understand". A great storm brought New Orleans back to the writer, who has lived for many years...