Family Fictions
by Elizabeth Rhett Woods
Family Fictions is a collection of poems that have to be read to be believed. Poets don’t lie; they just fictionalize, to protect the innocent and the guilty alike. The poet’s faithful lyre, subtly dissonant, slightly off-key. Hence, these poems, unreliable as to fact, surely imaginative, approaching the truth—with many sideways glances down verdant dead ends—making myths from out of the clear air, they appear to be more than they are.
Published in Toronto by Wolsak & Wynn, 2002, 90 pp.; Poetry; $20—from the author at www.elizabethrhettwoods.ca (signed; postage; no GST)