Rules for Walking Out

Crysta Casey’s definitive collection of poems, Rules for Walking Out (Cave Moon Press 2017), was the last manuscript Crysta completed and approved before her death at the Seattle VA in the spring of 2008. As Corrina Wycoff describes it in her review, "This collection chronicles Crysta Casey’s life during and after military service. Her poems stretch from the Parris Island boot camp where her enlistment began in 1978, to the Seattle Veteran’s Hospital where her life ended thirty years later. She rarely editorializes. Instead, with journalistic distance, Casey juxtaposes her experiences, revealing their complexity, and creating a deeply authentic, poignant memoir in verse." This is the digital version of the book and includes audio recordings of Crysta reading some of her poems.