These Few Seeds - Softcover

Sterling, Meghan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947896393 ISBN 13: 9781947896390

Publisher: Terrapin Books, 2021

Synopsis

Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations of new motherhood, there is an undercurrent of foreboding about the kind of world we are bequeathing to our children-a world ravaged by environmental degradation and political strife. But Meghan Sterling's unflinching depiction of the imperiled world that her daughter will likely inherit is tempered by the abiding lessons of her Jewish ancestral history, a reverence for the natural world in all its seemingly unstoppable splendor, and an unquenchable hope that the future is ours to redeem: ". . . to you I bequeath / all the courage / of birds and flowers, / water and stones, / to love enough, / to love with the toughness of trees."

-Richard Foerster

About this title

About the Author

Meghan Sterling is co-editor of the anthology A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis and Assocate Poetry Editor of the Maine Review. Her work has been published in Rattle, Balancing Act 2, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Sky Island Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. She has been a Dibner Fellow at the 2020 Black Fly Writer's Retreat and a Hewnoaks Artist Colony Resident in 2019 and 2021. Her chapbook, How We Drift, was published by Blue Lyra Press in 2016. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her family. These Few Seeds is her debut full-length poetry collection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Terrapin Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947896393
• ISBN 13: 9781947896390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• Editor: Lockward Diane