Frogs in the Rain Barrel Greta Guzek cadences and repeated motifs to

cadences and repeated motifs to create an overall structure that is pre-eminently musical

his "Pygmalion / sculpture of boyhood hunger

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he's much too nice to mean any harm

In poetic terms

Frogs in the Rain Barrel Greta Guzek cadences and repeated motifs toDescription In the title poem of this extraordinary first book, Sally Ito remembers her childhood in Alberta, when she set frogs in the rain barrel and watched them swim like stars in a "pool of still and nether depths whose mirrored surface was all." Those imagined depths become a powerful metaphor in these poems, which reflect Ito's experiences as a young Japanese Canadian living and writing in Alberta, the Northwest Territories, the West Coast and