Crepe Roses - Softcover

Ledford, Brenda Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692292217 ISBN 13: 9780692292211

Publisher: Aldrich Press, 2014

Crepe Roses, by Brenda Kay Ledford, is tithed to the deep mountains of the poet’s beloved western North Carolina. This stirring collection is the plat of the heart, a litany of memory that becomes as palpable as the land itself. Indeed memory, along with the Adamic impulse to name every signpost—to list those names in sorrow and triumph, to wander among them, crying out, as if they are lost, though they remain underfoot—is this book’s constant, thrumming trope. As the speaker attests in the poem, “Ceaseless Verse,” “The poetry of the earth never ceases.” Nor does the reader’s pleasure with these elegant poems.
—Joseph Bathanti, Poet Laureate of North Carolina
Crepe Roses by Brenda Kay Ledford is a patchwork quilt of experiences and memories pieced together with the skillful words of an established poet. The multi-hued fragments give a view of the Blue Ridge where “moments tick like hours on the wrap-around porch.” The ancient Appalachians come alive in her poems as “a breeze ricochets across the porch resurrecting buried dreams.” A dedicated writer, her remembrances bring much to us all. Settle down and visit Chunky Gal Mountain, Winding Stairs Gap, and Cherry Mountain where a Full Wolf Moon spills honey. A delightful read!
—C. Pleasants York, North Carolina Poetry Society President, Author of Pleasantries, Weaver of Destiny and Dream Within a Dream

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About the Author:

A native of Clay County, North Carolina, Brenda Kay Ledford is a retired educator. She received her Master of Arts in Education from Western Carolina University and studied Journalism at the University of Tennessee.
She has studied poetry under Karen Paul Homes, Dr. Will Wright, Dr. Michael Dietrich, Dr. Scott Owens, Dr. Bettie Sellers, Dr. Shelby Stephenson, Dr. Ted Olson, Dr. Steve Harvey, Dr. Robert Lee Brewer, Katherine Stripling Byer, Nancy Simpson, Dr. Celia H. Miles, Maureen Ryan Griffin, Charles Price, and other writers.
She’s former editor of Tri-County Communicator at Tri-County Community College and previous reporter for the Smoky Mountain Sentinel. She received an award from the North Carolina Press Association for her feature on the John C. Campbell Folk School.
Ledford belongs to the North Carolina Writer’s Network, North Carolina Poetry Society, Ridgeline Literary Alliance, Georgia Poetry Society, and is a charter member of the Byron Herbert Reece Society. She’s listed with A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, North Carolina Literary Map, and Who’s Who in America.

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