In Clearing the Mask , Gay Parks Rainville assembles a collage of lyric snapshots, each one poignantly rendered and vividly imagined.
The discerning poet-speaker reflects on both personal history and the state of the world, and through her steady, unflinching gaze, demonstrates that the only way to live a life-with all its joys and heartbreaks, its fortunes and losses-is "not past but through." -Christine Kitano , author of S.
In Clearing the Mask , Gay Parks Rainville assembles a collage of lyric snapshots, each one poignantly rendered and vividly imagined