Seed Across Snow

by Driskell, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9781597091503
• ISBN10: 1597091502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Red Hen Pr

Summary

Just as spring struggles to break through late winter, in Kathleen Driskellrs"s new poetry collection,Seed Across Snow, understanding attempts to thaw untended griefs, long dormant. In colorful lyric and complex narrative, Driskellrs"s poems center on recent tragedies surrounding her familyrs"s home in an old church rumored to be haunted-a neighbor nearly killed while fetching her mail, a girl abducted and left for dead on the highway behind her house, the drownings of two boys in a local creek. Poems are bound, too, with old sorrows from her past. Each memory that surfaces while living in the old church with its small graveyard next door, reminds that the most sacred, the family, is also the most fragile.

Author Biography

Award-winning poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell serves as the Associate Program Director of Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program in Louisville, Kentucky, where she is Associate Professor of Creative Writing. She is the author of one previous book of poetry, Laughing Sickness (in its second printing), and the editor of two anthologies of creative writing. Her poems have appeared in many nationally known literary magazines including North American Review, The Southern Review, and The Greensboro Review. Kathleen lives with her husband and two children in an old country church built before the Civil War.