Shapes of Time

"When I read Glenna Cook's poems, Aaron Copland's music plays in my ear. Her portrayal of life is simple, universal, and unnervingly complex. Cook's Shapes of Time is an arc of a woman's life, a life shaped by traditions and rhythm, a mirror of reflection. She gives us a litany of thanks, expressions of disappointment, unimaginable grief, unbridled joy, that in the end are unfinished-life cut short, for it is never long enough.

We understand how she 'will leave behind a long/list of books I ...