In the Tunnel

In the Tunnel gives the reader a glimpse into Lucille Gang Shulklapper s life but, more than that, it sheds light on issues many of us deal Where Are the Vineyards of Iron from Where the Meteor Falls? merges her memories of a birthday dinner at the World Trade Center with 9/11. How can these be meshed? In the wine. ...Later, we bought a case and drank love / over and over again, the way I remember / the morning the planes struck / over and over again, / when the cellar and the sky reversed themselves. / But never the word love, / nor the full-bodied wine of our lives. In the Tunnel reflects back to times that ring true by means of the word. --Robert L. Giron, editor of Poetic Voices Without Borders 2