A story set in the Bronx in the present-day, this is the story of an ancient nun, Sister Edgar, a younger nun Sister Grace, who with graffiti-artist Ismael and his gang help feed the poor, and the little homeless girl Esmeralda.
Call it inevitable that Dan Osman found the fatal edge of his signature sport, a thing known as "free-falling." But were his leaps of faith—and thus his sad death—as profound as he imagined? Or just stunt taken to foolish extremes?
Marcia Aldrich is the author of Girl Rearing: Memoir of a Girlhood Gone Astray, a collection of essays published in 1998. Her essay, "Hair," was selected for Best American Essays 1993.
The poet laureate reflects on what makes the American people 'a people''and what our poetry can teach us about the 'fragile heroic enterprise of remembering."