Calling the Garden from the Grave

Lesley Clinton's Calling the Garden from the Grave explores our restless human yearnings and spiritual endurance. Pieces in this collection have won awards from the Poetry Society of Texas, Press Women of Texas, and the Houston Poetry Fest. Settings as vast as the West Texas desert and intimate as a one-bedroom apartment invite the reader to both adventure and contemplation.

In these pages, the reader meets trailblazers and homebodies, mothers and daughters, lovers and loners, the famed and ...