The Mountain Ash - Softcover

Rabbers, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1950744035 ISBN 13: 9781950744039

Publisher: Michigan Writers Cooperative Press, 2021

Synopsis

"'I'm new here, ' begins the first poem in Kathy Rabbers' The Mountain Ash. Each poem in this collection carries that same wide-eyed quality. Here is a life in poems, told simply, but nothing is simple seen with such awareness. The image of a young girl who is 'too young to know sadness, ' but still chokes on the memory of her mother with an unknown man at the beach. The same mother tries to plant a mountain ash tree and fails, as her marriage is failing, and yet she teaches her daughter to love words. Darkness and wisdom are threaded through these poems. In 'Fifth Grade Daydream, ' my favorite in this collection, the classroom fills with water which reveals at last the beauty of every detail, and brings a 'wisdom beyond the fifth grade.' These poems manage to live gracefully in both worlds, the always-new past and the wise present."

- Fleda Brown, author of The Woods Are On Fire: New and Selected Poems

Edition details

• Publisher: Michigan Writers Cooperative Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950744035
• ISBN 13: 9781950744039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38