Kirby Olson

Carla Traylor Griswold

The Evergreen State College, BA, 1988

Editorial Review of "Missing Women 1969-1993"

A small volume of extraordinary story poems by an accomplished Seattle poet.
"Sometimes a stranger known to us for moments can spark our souls to kinship for eternity." Carla Griswold paints a poetic picture of seven such individuals who have touched her life. This book is beautifully set up to accent the times in her life between 1969-1993 when she felt a strong connection to women who then drifted out of her life. There are threads of truth that resonate a more universal feeling of happiness followed by loss.