Minglements: Prose on Poetry and Life

Poems, rutabagas, charm school, webs, drowning, depression, on particular Puritan preacher, a mother, the Easter Bunny, flatulence, a duck decoy, brass stanchions, leftovers, paintings, dogs, aging, ghosts, not-ghosts, criticism, questions, answers, and memory. For Renée Ashley, everything’s connected, and so comes forth in rays of entanglements, some hilarious, some not so hilarious at all. This collection is a kind of guided tour through the way a mind works. Now, when people ask Ashley, What planet do you live on? she can hold up this book in response.