Towheaded Stone Thrower

Commemorating a love story, a marriage, the moments of a shared life both large and small, the poems in Jim Peterson's Towheaded Stone Thrower: The Harriet Poems flicker through the delights of presence and the griefs of absence like light dappling through trees. These are poems that reveal the complex and intertwined histories of self and place, as well as the ways in which a couple learns to recognize themselves within the gaze of the other. (Lee Ann Roripaugh)