Quilting the Loose Edges

by Susan Woods Morse

Scheduled Release Date: June 15, 2023

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“This collection of poems vividly evokes the widely separated places the poet has lived—California’s San Joaquin Valley, rural Maine, and Western Oregon—and the tensions within and between generations of an American family. We feel the heat of Southern California summers, the piercing chill of Maine winters, and the lushness of a Willamette Valley spring. We feel also the strains of physical and emotional distances as successive generations leave home, return, establish new homes, or range restlessly. Besides conjuring up entire physical and social landscapes, these poems adumbrate the nuances and complexities of relations between child and parent, and among siblings. The poet’s relocations and family relationships are necessarily individual, but they connect with a larger story of Americans’ migrations over the past century, and their particulars will reverberate with those of many readers’ lives.”

—Eleanor Berry, author of Works of Wildfire