Bowl Author:Carol Snow Poetry. "She is cunning, subtle, and she can write." -- Robert Hass. Carol Snow peers into water off the end of a dock and notes "something there. Something / white there under the water. // Tugged on its moorings." And on hers -- tethered by perception, memory, and reflection, incidents (of tidepooling, feeding an animal at the petting zoo... more », a drawing of a bowl and beetle reproduced on a postcard from the Met, the impossible Law of Refraction, watching magicians on 50's television) are linked as in pre-reading workbooks she'd connected images "with an oversized pencil and all your body-mind -- even the tongue - attending,/ drawing around each an awkward loop like a bad lasso (the hand was young.) // then making the tether." Snow loops an ample bowl. Her first collection, ARTIST AND MODEL, won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, the National Poetry Series, and the Poetry Center Book Award. Her second collection, FOR, inaugurates the University of California Press's new poetry series in 2000. She lives in San Francisco. Signed & numbered handsewn chapbook in an edition of 100, letterpress printed on French and Italian papers. Number 3 in the Em Press Poetry Pamphlet Series.« less