Mountain Offerings - by Amy Allen (Paperback)

About the Book

Accessible, honest, poignant, rooted in nature and the natural world.

Book Synopsis

Through interactions with and the examination of the natural world, poems in Mountain Offerings move from a youthful voice to a more experienced one, showing a coming-of-age in partnership, parenthood, loss, and the development of independence and self-awareness. The simplicity, beauty, and peace of the outdoors provides an ideal vehicle through which this poet explores complex human emotions. In "January in Vermont," Allen writes:

The stars always shine brightest

on the coldest of days,

a reward just for making it.

Mountain Offerings is accessible, honest, poignant, and-rooted in nature and the natural world-earthly.

Review Quotes

"A heartfelt and resonant collection of poetry." -Kirkus Reviews

"These narrative, fictive poems capture life, love and loss, the passage of time, longing, and what it means to live now, with an optimism and grace as clear as a Vermont stream. Highly recommended." -Thomas Christopher Greene, author of Notes from the Porch

"Mountain Offerings lovingly transports us from mountain to lake and back again, across sand-stippled memories, lingering in the heart's most intimate moments with a reverent awareness of their literal and figurative landscapes. Each poem is indeed a glorious offering of gratitude to and for the natural world and our experiences of it-and so, of each other." -Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Say Hello to My Little Friend