Lou Ella Hickman
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Lou Ella Hickman's collection, writing the stars, touches on topics that matter. No foolishness or triviality here. These poems walk us into cancer an
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d the Shoah. These poems consider wildfires, slashed cotton bales, and nuns who served as Civil War nurses. We encounter the flight into Egypt, forgiveness of torturers, even "a hag of a woman" beside her Kentucky moonshine machinery. Yet while these poems carry true human weight, their lean simplicity gives them a brightness, a beauty, even a kindness that walks beside the reader as we consider their truth. Sr. Lou Ella is a necessary voice, a poet we need. (Joseph Ross)
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