Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit Joey Francis “Concerto of Hope for the

“Concerto of Hope for the Left Hand”

      living and breathing

It multiplies the ways in which a phrase can be read

The language of women’s poetry is internal

Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit Joey Francis “Concerto of Hope for thePascale Petits Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmothers Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. Tiger girl is the grandmother, with her tales of wild tigers, but shes also the endangered predators Petit encountered in Central India. In exuberant and tender ecopoems, the saving grace of love in an otherwise bleak childhood is celebrated through spellbinding