Tapping Roots
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We honor the object by giving it our full attention,” Goepfert states as she traces her ancestors and their shaping of both her childhood and its legacy. Many of her memories are our memories: porch swings, penny candy, the crowing of brothers as they win board games. With plainspoken simplicity and a sense of longing tempered by a sharp critical eye, Tapping Roots captures the stillness of the past, one of the realities that makes it so haunting: It doesn't move, but then again, we can't catch it. In these poems she holds her family members long enough for us to see ourselves in their contours.
~Patrice Claeys
