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