These poems weave fact with fiction; and their details, settings, characters, and voices were influenced by the author s interactions with innumerable sources diaries, memoirs, letters, and periodicals, to name a few. Though we might imagine such sources to be largely the black and white of old printing, there is living color winding through due to the author s personal experience, which is explained in a preface to the book. Potter is always original and from the heart, and in this case, her words integrate multicolored impressions of places and people, the things that make up the history of a region.

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Author of eight books of poetry and prose, her writers memoir Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton won the 2010 Maine Literary Award in Nonfiction. Dawn Potter directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, held each summer at Robert Frost's home in Franconia, New Hampshire. She serves on the faculty of 24 PearlStreet, the online writing program of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts; and works as a visiting writer in the schools, a freelance manuscript consultant, and a freelance editor for literary and academic presses.

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