Premium Members Get 10% Off and Earn Rewards Find Out More
Restoring Prairie

"This a weighty, but often witty, collection of new poems by Margaret Rozga in which she invites us to walk the restored Waterville prairie with her through the great cycle of seasons and it becomes, for the reader, an unimaginable enjoyment. There are poems of the natural world and its green grace, but there are also poems of loss, of the death of family and friends that take their place alongside the history of prairie loss and restoration. She says, 'When grief re-awakens / you feed it.' The prairie becomes a sanctuary, a safe place that seems both outside time but also of it. And as we heal the prairie, we are also healing our hearts. Her poems give memory to all the particulars: the bee, the seed, the grasses and golden honey. And through them we are there, too."

-Cary Waterman, author of Threshold: New and Collected Poems

1145300831
Restoring Prairie

"This a weighty, but often witty, collection of new poems by Margaret Rozga in which she invites us to walk the restored Waterville prairie with her through the great cycle of seasons and it becomes, for the reader, an unimaginable enjoyment. There are poems of the natural world and its green grace, but there are also poems of loss, of the death of family and friends that take their place alongside the history of prairie loss and restoration. She says, 'When grief re-awakens / you feed it.' The prairie becomes a sanctuary, a safe place that seems both outside time but also of it. And as we heal the prairie, we are also healing our hearts. Her poems give memory to all the particulars: the bee, the seed, the grasses and golden honey. And through them we are there, too."

-Cary Waterman, author of Threshold: New and Collected Poems

21.95 In Stock
Restoring Prairie

Restoring Prairie

by Margaret Rozga
Restoring Prairie

Restoring Prairie

by Margaret Rozga

Overview

"This a weighty, but often witty, collection of new poems by Margaret Rozga in which she invites us to walk the restored Waterville prairie with her through the great cycle of seasons and it becomes, for the reader, an unimaginable enjoyment. There are poems of the natural world and its green grace, but there are also poems of loss, of the death of family and friends that take their place alongside the history of prairie loss and restoration. She says, 'When grief re-awakens / you feed it.' The prairie becomes a sanctuary, a safe place that seems both outside time but also of it. And as we heal the prairie, we are also healing our hearts. Her poems give memory to all the particulars: the bee, the seed, the grasses and golden honey. And through them we are there, too."

-Cary Waterman, author of Threshold: New and Collected Poems

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781960329479
Publisher: Cornerstone Press
Publication date: 05/06/2024
Pages: 118
Sales rank: 320,010
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Margaret Rozga is a life-long Wisconsin resident and the Wisconsin Poet Laureate from 2019-2020. She is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems (Cornerstone Press 2021), which received an honorable mention for the Edna Meundt Poetry Book Award at the 2021 Wisconsin Writers Awards. Her work was nominated for inclusion in the 2005 Best New Poets anthology and for a Pushcart Prize, and her first book, 200 Nights and One Day (2009), was awarded a bronze medal in poetry in the 2009 Independent Publishers Book Awards and named an outstanding achievement in poetry for 2009 by the Wisconsin Library Association. Rozga has also been a resident at Shake Rag Alley; the Sundress Academy of the Arts; Write On, Door County; the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology; and the Ragdale Foundation, as well as a creative writing fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. She lives in Milwaukee.
From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Customer Reviews