The Rashomon Syndrome

Pamela Gillilan published her first collection at the age of 68. This, her fourth book, is published on her 80th birthday-a time for looking back. Like Kurosawa's film from which she takes her title, these poems are about individual recall, the chameleon quality of memory, and so also about deception and self-deception. They explore the value of memory for each of us, the way it affects the present, and the sadness of its eventual erasure. ""[Gillilan's] voice is beyond bravery or regret: It manages, with profound and comprehensible wisdom, to approach death with simple clarity.""-Kirkus Reviews