Wave If You Can See Me: Poems

From the author of Sweet Confluence, a moving collection of poetry conveying her experience of her husband's illness and eventual death.

The running theme through the collection Wave If You Can See Me is the progression of illnesses resulting in the death of the poet's husband, and fiction writer Scott Ely, from the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Interspersed with these poems are her own explorations—in part distraction from the pain of watching her husband decline, in part a long-hel...