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The Present State of the Garden

Heather Sellers

5/5 ( ratings)

Winner of the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry

In The Present State of the Garden, both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker works through layers of loss: the dissolution of a marriage and a world on the brink of ecological collapse. She attempts to patch together some kind of new Eden in these aftermaths and to make a home and family from the remnants--memories from girlhood, a stray aunt and a niece, and what's left of her small, once lush garden after the punishing storms of summer. The Present State of the Garden is a clear-eyed, open-hearted poetic memoir.

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Lynx House Press

Release: October 01, 2021

ISBN: 0899241808

ISBN 13: 9780899241807

The Present State of the Garden

Heather Sellers

5/5 ( ratings)

Winner of the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry

In The Present State of the Garden, both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker works through layers of loss: the dissolution of a marriage and a world on the brink of ecological collapse. She attempts to patch together some kind of new Eden in these aftermaths and to make a home and family from the remnants--memories from girlhood, a stray aunt and a niece, and what's left of her small, once lush garden after the punishing storms of summer. The Present State of the Garden is a clear-eyed, open-hearted poetic memoir.

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Lynx House Press

Release: October 01, 2021

ISBN: 0899241808

ISBN 13: 9780899241807

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