Somewhere South of Here Blood Sword 000 people had gathered in

000 people had gathered in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the day she was launched

from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with the Nobel poet's death in 1996

and especially by the Japanese woodcut

After the War Between the States

Somewhere South of Here Blood Sword 000 people had gathered inI'd wondered about my mother all my life what she looked like, how she smelled and sounded and acted. Lately this wondering had grown to encompass a curiosity about the kind of people she herself came from, because they were my family, too, after all, even though I knew nothing about them. I'd no idea whether they were loud or soft spoken, funny or boring, preferred chocolate to vanilla, if they liked movies over books or the other way around. I