The River People

"The poems in The River People, Polly Buckingham's debut collection, move through dream landscapes and natural landscapes exploring connection and loss, abundance and degradation, the personal and the political. The speaker in these poems is often in a state of not knowing that can be both terrifying and revelatory. It is a state in which windows and doors connect the living and the dead and the inner and outer landscapes. The River People is organized in four sections that move from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. The poems are heavily imagistic and reminiscent of the deep image poetry and Spanish surrealism"--