The Angels' Share Author:Brooks Carver This collection reverberates with rural tradition, heartbreak, and salvation. There are individual stories wrapped in historical events; a drummer boy at the battle of Petersburg, a confederate widow going through her dead husband’s backpack, a peddler in Kansas who is not who he seems, murder on a Civil War battlefield, a farm boy with a b... more »roken heart, and others. Included are essays about a dog named Molly, a man’s last hunt, a boyhood recollection about the game of golf, and covered bridges. The poems concern themselves with nature, earth, sky, and human longings. All in all, it is a compilation concerning the landscape of life.« less