Marilyn Bowering's new book of poems weaves beautiful meditations on absences and loss with personal, local and cultural memories that point to the emergence of the past into the present. The poems awaken transformative interconnections between literature, ecology, civilization, history and personal critique. A story of acknowledgment and restoration is being told from various points of view and identities, from vanished figures from a Victoria childhood,...

"P.J. Funnybunny is not having a good day. His mom won't let him eat ice cream for breakfast. She won't let him hang upside down from a tree. She won't even let him watch a scary movie! P.J. visits Potts Pig, whose mom lets them do all those things. But when he gets a stomachache and has a bad dream, P.J. Funnybunny realizes that--while it's fun to be a pig--it's better being a bunny!"--

My Tutor is a romantic comedy about Bobby Chrystal, a high school senior on the verge of graduation who flunks his French final and Terry Green, an attractive and well talented French tutor that Bobby's parents will hire to help him pass the makeup exam. During their encounter it is clear that Bobby's got more on his mind than collegiate affairs.