Sally Ashton

Some Odd Afternoon Sally Ashton

Poetry. 'This is about what turns up, ' writes Sally Ashton in SOME ODD AFTERNOON. What turns up may be the 'dangedy-dang twang' of a banjo, a laptop hiding under a hoop skirt, or a living room that becomes a forest of grandfathers, one 'a log, another stone, one a river.' To step into the opening line of one of her poems is to venture out into a future as uncertain and marvelous as the one unfolding before the youngest son in a fairy tale. We understand how wide the world is when Attention, freed from its daily constraints, becomes a wanderer--Nils Peterson