Barley Child William Chittick Marc Van de Mieroop (Columbia

Marc Van de Mieroop (Columbia University)

In considering the transformative meaning of art

His doomsday-prepping aunt

including child prodigies

to others who give birth to children with disabilities or who have had a pregnancy loss

Barley Child William Chittick Marc Van de Mieroop (ColumbiaBarley Child, Greg Rappleye's fifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives recalled, imagined, and reconstructed from census records, old letters, church registries, yellowed newspaper clippings, and a few odd photographs in which the human figures are often unnamed. The sum of these affidavits, arrayed across the lyric and narrative lines of these poems, is an