My Kindred

Balancing curiosity, beauty, surprise, and the weight of mortality, this book's kinship embraces multitudes: fir, owl, manatee, and pollen; sun, sea, lily, and snake; the poet's parents, Paul and Grace Whitman; the Good Gray Poet Whitman. Each poem bears witness to concentricity--the poet inviting trees to live inside her, a tree expanding itself to accept her body. Some of the poet's kindred--the Biblical Eve, water's sister, a lake, the moon, everyday moths, and more--speak for themselves. What's mundane is never merely that. In this kinship, the commonplace carries a wild sentience, a mythic and sacred essence. Like the hummingbird, these poems pull--from our all too dark world--a thread of sweetness and bounty.

Author: Paulann Petersen
Publisher: Salmon Poetry
Published: 07/25/2023
Pages: 108
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
ISBN13: 9781915022356
ISBN10: 1915022355
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Women Authors