Bad River Road

This is my favorite book by Debra Nystrom so far. Its beautiful.Ann Beattie A fearless and elegiac book, deriving from those struggles which many of us know all too wellthe final illness of the poets mother, the physical and mental decline of her father, and the emotional sufferings of her imprisoned brother. . . . Bad River Road arises from necessity.David Wojahn Debra Nystrom grew up in South Dakota, where she returns each year to family land on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. She has published two previous books of poetry, Torn Sky and A Quarter Turn. She teaches at the University of Virginia.