Glamorganshire Bible

This suite of poems transports us to another place and time, into the beauty and desperation of a western Maryland railroad town a century ago. Viti mends the broken kaleidoscope of memory through the power of her own imagination, channeling the voice of "our grandma, young and wild" who became a wife and mother far too soon.Viti chronicles three generations of women seeking love, escape, freedom, and connections with one another. Coal mines, railroad depots, adultery, drinking binges, supper of "bread soaked in milk," churches, two-dollar dresses and desertion are only some of the hard-core, radioactive elements in these gritty poems.