Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals & Golden Shovels Kristy Baptist His loss leaves Cain devastated

His loss leaves Cain devastated

forever in bright-eyed pursuit of Mr

As they find solace and companionship together in the idyllic surroundings of the hospital

On the first day at his new school

She continued roughhousing with the neighborhood kids

Beginning and Ending with Emily: Ghazals & Golden Shovels Kristy Baptist His loss leaves Cain devastatedIn this collection, poet Scott Wiggerman does not write alone. He plays with two poetic forms ghazals and golden shovels that invite him to draw from the Emily Dickinson poems that speak to so many of us. The resulting poems end up far richer than simple reframings of Dickinson's work. Her words serve as inspiration, a beginning point for Wiggerman to create fresh works entirely his own poems that can continue speaking to us today.