River MartelRiver Martel is a father of six and the voice on the other side of every poem his daughter Khalessi starts. For most of Khalessi's life, love has had to travel - through phone calls, through distance, through the space between one visit and the next and River has spent that time learning how to make sure she felt it anyway. He named her Khalessi Savannah after his mother, who was from Savannah, Georgia, so that a piece of her would always have somewhere to live. What The River Taught The Moon began the way most of his best work with Khalessi has begun: with her question, and him sitting with it until he understood what it needed from him. He writes the way he shows up - steady, unhurried, and completely honest - because his daughter, more than anyone, has always made it impossible for him to be anything else. This is his first book. Read More Read Less