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The Dead Tree Garden: Poems (Propel Poetry) - Softcover

Dougherty, The Dead Tree Garden Lisa M.

 
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Synopsis

<i>The Dead Tree Garden</i> presents a profoundly evocative poetic landscape in which themes of memory, motherhood, and mortality are intricately interwoven. Lisa M. Dougherty employs a voice that is at once tender and uncompromising, cultivating a body of work rooted in grief and resilience. Each poem functions as a contemplative exploration of the subtle devastations and unexpected beauty embedded within quotidian experience. Her imagery, marked by its tactile immediacy and emotional rawness, offers readers a fragmented yet cohesive mosaic of lived experience—one that is simultaneously intimate and broadly relatable.

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About the Author

<b>Lisa M. Dougherty </b>is the author of <i>Small as Hope in the Helicopter Rain </i>and coauthor of <i>The Answer is Not Here.</i> Her work has appeared in the anthologies <i>Alongside we Travel: Contemporary Poets on Autism, Double Kiss: Stories, Poems, and Essays on the Art of Billiards, </i>and <i>Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. </i>Her poem “Kildeer” was short-listed for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Erie, PA with her husband and their two daughters.

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<b>And Not a Child </b> Remind me because I have Longed for the template Of kindness, this idea That a door held open Or a shopping cart offered At the local grocery Could matter. More than A signature inscribed check, The artificial gesture of What supports you. Will you Listen a moment To what we haven’t touched, Names we haven’t called, On what playground Do we keep the fingers we have Pointed toward what We want to name other As if separation is desire And not a child Who does not want To go to bed at night Asking to be slept with, Afraid of morning And waking up without?

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