— Here we find layers of fire, family, fruition and failure. These poems are both cautionary and celebratory. What has been felled—trees or a marriage, a dream or a body—might rise again in some other form or direction. Trees talk. If we listen, we can learn from them. And if we revere them, spend time with them, we can become more spiritually enriched.
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is a clever collection of persona poems based on Frank L. Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that in turn shows the Midwest in full-color and beauty, giving voice to familiar characters and to unexpected entities. Hidden aspects of their lives are revealed, showing Kansas as a place worthy of imagination, one that demands our attention.
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is a practice in ordinary love, both longing for and celebrating connection. Here, we may partake in reading as if a friend speaks to us directly. This friend that—despite mistakes and overreaching—invests herself with unabashed earnestness in the greenest of hope, imagination, freedom, beginner’s mind, surrender, and renewal.
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Janet Steward became caregiver for her husband when memory loss joined his list of chronic conditions. This moving collection not only documents the couple’s journey, but it offers a source of insight, courage, and comfort. More than anything these poems teach us that the practice of love is a lifelong exercise, one that is rewarded with a beautiful, intimate dance for two.
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weaves stories of North Carolina and South Carolina through various people and places. Her poems are a glimpse into the place the Old Folk’s call “God’s Country.” From looking outside her grandparent’s home in Brevard, North Carolina to recounting her sister’s journey to a cottage at Pawleys Island, the reader can travel with her on this journey of recognition and recollection.
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gives us a poetic instruction manual for everything from picking mulberries, saying I love you, to living with ghosts. These poems apply the language of direction—with its imperatives and step-by-step guidelines—to life’s experiences and emotions and offer insight in a unique poetic manner.
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pulls on the fraying threads that divide us and gently weaves them with striking imagery to inspire connections through hope and, at times, humor.
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is “a marvelously witty glimpse of the divinity that resides within us all: a self-awareness creating universes and loving every tiniest bit, laughing and crying over our human foibles.”
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