Teaser Tuesday: Life Expectancy by Kirsten Rian

I am in northern Iceland, 913 miles and a softly arcing mapline away from my own Norwegian beginning stories, and I have a lot of questions, too, about things I don't understand, that can't be easily explained or ordered, in my mind anyway. I have plenty of names, but no way yet to compile them, or to at least attach a meaning I'm willing to accept.

-- Life Expectancy by Kirsten Rian. Kirsten's new book of poetry also includes several essays. In both poems and prose she explores family history, motherhood, and life taken in unexpected directions.

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