Introduction

Isabel duarte gray was born in california. Her parents were both artists. They moved to dykesburg, kentucky where mother's family was from. Dykesburg and some of the surrounding kentucky and tennessee towns formed the setting for her debut collection,. titled evenshorn. This is poetry off the shelf. I'm helena drot to day, my drowning home. In this collection, darte gray speaks in the voices of her cousins, grandmothers, aunts and other members of her family.