Rough Cradle
Poet, critic, and founding member of Alice James Books, Betsy Sholl is the author of six previous collections of poetry. Recipient of the AWP Prize for Poetry as well as a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is the current Poet Laureate of Maine and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and in the Vermont College MFA program.

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Rough Cradle
Poet, critic, and founding member of Alice James Books, Betsy Sholl is the author of six previous collections of poetry. Recipient of the AWP Prize for Poetry as well as a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is the current Poet Laureate of Maine and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and in the Vermont College MFA program.

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Rough Cradle

Rough Cradle

by Betsy Sholl
Rough Cradle

Rough Cradle

by Betsy Sholl

Overview

Poet, critic, and founding member of Alice James Books, Betsy Sholl is the author of six previous collections of poetry. Recipient of the AWP Prize for Poetry as well as a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is the current Poet Laureate of Maine and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and in the Vermont College MFA program.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781882295739
Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication date: 04/01/2009
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Poet, critic, and founding member of Alice James Books, Betsy Sholl is the author of six previous collections of poetry. Recipient of the AWP Prize for Poetry as well as a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is the current Poet Laureate of Maine and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and in the Vermont College MFA program.


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From “Edge of Town”:

I would have
taken the whole wild western coast, wave-strewn
layers of sediment pressed down and heaved up,

left as rubble, then smoothed by the sea’s
agitated prancing in its rocky stall.
It was that rough shore I wanted. And more.
Its long view back to something older than age.
Those two huge upright stones with a stone slab
capping them left to mark the dead

as if death itself were an old implacable god,
an ancient relentless one to stand before
dumbstruck.

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