Coming to Treeline: Adirondack Poems - Hardcover

Pamela Cranston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972416315 ISBN 13: 9780972416313

Publisher: St Huberts Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Pamela Cranston's "Coming To Treeline: Adirondack Poems" celebrates the High Peaks Region of the Adirondacks in upstate New York. These extraordinary poems capture the mountains, lakes, streams and people who have been part of Cranston's life for over fifty years. Richard Henry, editor of Blueline says, "Coming To Treeline startles with the depth and clarity of an Adirondack lake."

About this title

About the Author

Pamela Cranston is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of California, and the author of a murder mystery, "The Madonna Murders" (2003) and two books of poetry: "Coming to Treeline: Adirondack Poems" (2005) and "Searching for Nova Albion" (2019). She has served several San Francisco Bay Area churches and hospices for the past thirty years.

Review

"Coming To Treeline is enchanting. Such feeling! It's an honor to have a painting from our collection grace the cover." -- Mimi Kilgore, Curator, Fayez Sarofim Collection

"Coming To Treeline startles with the depth and clarity of an Adirondack lake." -- Richard Henry, editor, Blueline Literary Journal.

"Cranston does what the best poets do best: (she) connects with readers on a level of emotional depth and truth." -- Victor Forbes, Editor of FINE ART MAGAZINE, FALL 2005

"Pamela Cranston has captured [these mountains] with grace and invested them with another skin of meaning and of beauty." -- Bill McKibben, environmentalist and author of Wandering Home: A Long Walk Through America's Most Hopeful Region, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks.

"This book is a hymn to a place sung in language that flows out of close observation, reverence and love." -- Chase Twichell, author of The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach, The Ghost of Eden: Poems, and The Snow Watcher: Poems.

"Written with craft and a mature sensitivity to language, Cranston's poetry sings with peace, hope, and wisdom..." -- Colleen Marie Ryor, editor, The Adirondack Review.

Cranston's Adirondacks is a world made particular. This poetry finds in these ancient mountains an ancient solace: holy-ground, renewal, redemption. -- Stephanie Coyne-DeGhett, Poetry Editor, Blueline

Cranston's passion for the outdoors shines through with an attention to detail that brings the reader's every sense alive. -- Brittany Bombard, Features Editor, Lake Placid News

I'll keep "Coming To Treeline" on my desk to read it over and over. Poetry like this is poetry forever. -- Elfie E. Larken, Oakland, CA

Like Herbert or Traherne, Cranston opens new doors, inviting us to grasp revelation everywhere, particularly in our interactions with nature. -- The Rev. Dr. L. William Countryman, author of The Poetic Imagination: An Anglican Spiritual Tradition and Run, Shepherds, Run.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Huberts Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0972416315
• ISBN 13: 9780972416313
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112