The Underground Communion Rail

Susan Firer

These poems chronicle Susan Firer’s family history, full of poignancy, humor, and ultimate tragedy in a moving panorama of Midwestern life in a quieter time.

Let the girls forget the wooden painted
horses allowed in their dreams.
Let them learn to love more complicatedly
colored and breathing real animals of barns & fields.
‘Daughters,’ I whisper,
‘be bad women; demand
to be more of yourselves
than anyone will willingly
want you to be.’
             —from “For My Daughters”

5½ x 8½ inches • 58 pages • ISBN 0-931122-72-4 • $8.95