Until You Make the Shore

I've included this book on both my poetry and drama shelves because of the way Conaway has structured this collection. It's made of fine poems, to be sure, but it's also a dialogue between Conaway the instructor and the imagined voices of four students, all female inmates in a juvenile detention center. I'd love to see this fine drama/poetry staged one day.

The individual poems are moving and dark, as the lives and attitudes, but fondness for language, of the characters is revealed.