Silk and the Ragpicker's Grandson
Poetry. Bert Stern, Milligan professor Emeritus at Wabash College in Indiana, now lives in Keene Valley, New York, with his wife, Tam Lin Neville, a poet. This volume joins two groups of poems: one about the experiences of Tam Lin Neville's great-great grandfather, who traded for silk in China in the mid-nineteeth century, the other about Bert Stern's ancestors, whose roots were is Kishinev in the province of Moldavia. Perfectbound chapbook.