On the Horizon

Lois Lowry is an acclaimed author of such books as The Giver and Number the Stars.  This collection of poems is a biographical memoir of sorts - her reflections of her time in the 1940s during WWII.  It was poignant and haunting at times, as she jumped between short biographical descriptions of some of the soldiers lost on the Arizona, and her happy times on the beach in Hawaii with her grandma.  Alternately, her chapters detailing her experience in Japan after the war chillingly describe life there after the war and the atomic bombs.   But there is hope, and beauty and connections bridging divides there as well.  (BIO LOW)