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Highlights
- Silver, Poetry, 2024 IPNE AwardMoving between songful expressions of mourning, solace, delight, and play, poems in Stonechat span themes of family, grief, joy, beauty, human nature, the natural world, love, parenting, and discovery.
- Author(s): Mary Elder Jacobsen
- 96 Pages
- Poetry, Women Authors
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About the Book
Stonechat span themes of family, grief, joy, beauty, human nature, the natural world, love, parenting, and discovery.
Book Synopsis
Silver, Poetry, 2024 IPNE Award
Moving between songful expressions of mourning, solace, delight, and play, poems in Stonechat span themes of family, grief, joy, beauty, human nature, the natural world, love, parenting, and discovery. Within these pages Jacobsen explores, sometimes in form and sometimes in invented form, how the world appears, how we live in the world, and how she responds to the world, whether in relationship to others, to nature, or to the imaginative musings of the creative spirit.
Review Quotes
"These poems sing and dig." -Kerrin McCadden, author of American Wake
"Stonechat is a remarkable book, fluent, fluid, formal, and fresh. Deeply connected to family and a New England landscape she knows intimately, Mary Elder Jacobsen carefully shapes each poem to its subject, the poems soaring with an easy, unforced lyricism."
-Elizabeth Spires, author of A Memory of the Future"Jacobsen maintains an Edenic wonder at the natural world with a verbal music that flows with internal rhymes, alliteration, and cascading lyrical lines."
-Chard deNiord, Poet Laureate of Vermont (2015-2019)"Jacobsen makes the everyday shimmer with life..."
-James Crews, author of Unlocking the Heart: Writing for Mindfulness, Creativity, and Self-Compassion