No matter how far life draws us from home, the tug of the familiar is always there, turning our eyes and our steps. In Moth—Alice Pettway’s second collection of poetry—the light of family and tradition is so bright it sometimes singes. These poems cast the lure of the unknown against the certainty of return, an emotionally tenuous landscape captured in Pettway’s spare language.
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No matter how far life draws us from home, the tug of the familiar is always there, turning our eyes and our steps. In Moth—Alice Pettway’s second collection of poetry—the light of family and tradition is so bright it sometimes singes. These poems cast the lure of the unknown against the certainty of return, an emotionally tenuous landscape captured in Pettway’s spare language.
ALICE PETTWAY is the author of three books of poetry: The Time of Hunger, Moth and Station Lights. Her work has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, AGNI, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, and many other respected journals. Pettway is a former Chulitna Artist and Lily Peter fellow. She currently lives near Seattle, Washington.
