Woman Before an Aquarium
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822933780

In her first book (a collection of poems), Patricia Hampl establishes the themes and preoccupations that would come to define her work in poetry and prose in the next decades: her Minnesota upbringing, her Czech and Catholic heritage, love and betrayal, loss and, above all, memory.

“ . . . a generous first collection”
Choice

“a poetry of accumulated details, strikingly presented”
Virginia Quarterly Review