Still That Summer Girl

Elaine Wright Christensen third book of poems reflects her desire to keep memory alive Many prizewinning and published poems tell of ancestors, children, and insights gained as a woman who finds herself "still that summer girl.'' She writes of losing a child, loving a man for forty-eight years, speaking German, and living in the desert beneath a mountain that knows her while longing every day for the ocean--the only place she truly recognizes herself.