The Bottle Diggers

Andrea Fry's poetry collection, THE BOTTLE DIGGERS, is in the tradition of Joyce an assembly of voices, a cast of characters who tell stories. Sometimes these characters give their own testimony; sometimes they share someone else's story. Some poems recount simple moments; others tell longer tales. But for all of the variations, the storytelling is akin to a psychological or emotional digging, a cerebral parallel to the hunt for antique bottles described in the collection's titular poem. For the bottle diggers, to unearth even a fragment of a bottle is to salvage a story. An old dump ground then becomes a treasure trove of past voices that the diggers are compelled to discover. The bottle diggers have a shared trust that something of value is hidden there, that the voices that echo from the shards they encounter could easily be their own.

• | Author: Andrea L. Fry
• | Publisher: Turning Point
• | Publication Date: May 08, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 102 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 1625492324
• | ISBN-13: 9781625492326