Return to Book Page "Sonata for Three Sleeping Women" Canadian Materials Review (with excerpt of "Chinese Oldtimer") Frogs in the Rain Barrel By Sally Ito AVAILABLE 0-88971-160-7 Nightwood Editions 6 x 9 · 72 pages Paperback · $16.95 1995 The debut poetry collection by Sally Ito, one of Canada's most important up-and-coming writers. Runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. I have not met a man so strong as the snake who grabbed my ankles and wrestled me to the ground. No, not even you, Jacob. If in that night, I had a branch, I would have chased it off. But the enormity of it, the promise of its poison! At long last, the liberating of my thighs to the cry of birth. Forgive me, dear Jacob, forgive me but I too have wrestled, with this monster called Love.