on Nova Scotia with relatives and that "[t]he imaginative perception here is exquisite". Coulehan explains that the child reconciles her perceptions of a fantastic afterlife (dwelling at court as a page) with the reality of the dead child and the dead loon before her: "Maybe the dead don't go anywhere," Coulehan writes, "Maybe the dead are just dead." References External links "Death, Domesticity, and the Feminine Gaze: Bishop's "First Death in Nova Scotia"" by Martha Marinara American poems