The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing as Reciprocal Creation

An award-winning poet, a mother, a lover of the land and every creature in it, as well as a student of zoology, the author is at home in the vocabulary of nature. In this work of prose punctuated and intensified by poetry, she describes the genesis of her most admired verse and reveals how and why she writes.

“When a poet spills her secrets, that’s a special gift. . . . Pattiann Rogers seeks to situate, in plain words, the gene...