Told in the Seed and Selected Poems (Paperback or Softback)

Told in the Seed and Selected Poems offers poems from Sanora Babb’s more than sixty years of writing and publishing poetry. This new collection adds many of her earliest poems to those of her later years in the original Told in the Seed. A new introduction by Carol S. Loranger notes that “Of all Sanora Babb’s writings, it is the poetry, perhaps, that offers the most intimate and unvarnished picture of the woman and the artist.” In the introduction Loranger weaves together relevant information about Babb’s life with the more personal poems to further enhance the reader’s appreciation.
Babb published her first poem at fourteen in the Forgan Eagleand continued to write and publish poetry from the 1920s to the early 1990s. She won the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1967 for “Told in the Seed” and the Gold Medal Award in 1932 for “Captive” from the Mitre Press Anthology, London.
Having a strong empathy with people and their daily lives, an affinity with all in the natural world, and the ability to elevate the ordinary into the extraordinary, Babb reflects all this in her poetry. Her poems quicken with lyricism, clarity, and a powerful sense of immediacy.

Sanora Babb (1907-2005) is the author of nine books, as well as numerous essays, short stories, and poems that were published in literary magazines alongside the work of Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Ann Porter, William Saroyan, and William Carlos Williams. She published her first poem at fourteen in the Forgan Eagle and continued to write and publish poetry all her life, winning the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award in 1967 for "Told in the Seed" and the Gold Medal Award in 1932 for "Captive" from the Mitre Press Anthology, London.

Carol S. Loranger, has taught American literature and culture at Wright State University. She has published on the poetry of Sanora Babb, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Robert Frost, and E.A. Robinson, and on the fiction of writers as diverse as Louisa May Alcott, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Pynchon, and William S. Burroughs. A sometime poet, she has published poetry as Carol Schaechterle in Pebble, Mad River Review, Midwest Review, and Louisville Review.

Joanne Dearcopp is Sanora Babb's literary executor and publisher. She has worked at Simon & Schuster, McCall Books, and Grolier Publishing, and is co-editor of Unknown No More: Recovering Sanora Babb, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.