The Dog of Memory Eyewear Publishing Many of the poems are

Many of the poems are formal haiku sequences

from Kintsugi and Ikebana to whirling dervishes and meteor showers)

Elaine Feinstein’s poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature

'Richly self-reliant

These poems may sometimes pretend they’re joking but they never really are

The Dog of Memory Eyewear Publishing Many of the poems areThe dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Helen Farishs native Cumberland and further afield mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens and people, but also the landscape of literature itself which is explored through re readings of ten authors encountered during her school days. Farishs doggd and deeply moving mediation on memory ranges