Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill you feel like you're eavesdropping

you feel like you're eavesdropping on your best friend's confessional and inquiries to the Divine

This myriad-voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment

Her most recent poetry collection is When Creation Falls (Meadowlark Books

"For her memoir When My Mother Is Most Beautiful

Letters from Inside the Whale: Resuming the Conversation My Father and I Never Had . . . about His War Author|Ted Hill you feel like you're eavesdroppingA little girl asked her father, "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Tucking his child in bed, he answered with a fantastic story about a whale. A tale she wholeheartedly believed, until she didn't. He never talked about his war again. Coming of age during the Vietnam era, the daughter watched war play out on TV, listened to broadcasts of the draft on the radio, faced the mirror of a Vietnam Memorial engraved with names of the dead, joined the protest