Beside the Sleeping Maiden: Poets of Marin

By: C. B. Follett

Poetry. California Studies. Edited by CB Follett. Includes poems by Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Linda Gregg, Kay Ryan, and others. "A majority of these poems use the landscape of Marin as either subject or setting. Because of that, there's an overlapping imagery--hawks and deer, hills and sea and fog--that gives the experience of reading the book the feel of turning a jewel in your hand to study the various facets. Sleeping Maiden celebrates the local; and implicit in that stance are both appreciation for, and responsibility towards, where one finds oneself on the earth. That's a sense of the world that's more and more in danger of becoming extinct, but it's still alive and kicking in this book"--Kim Addonizio, Poetry Flash.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965701530
• ISBN13: 9780965701532
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Arctos Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book to give as a gift.

BESIDE THE SLEEPING MAIDEN was given to me as a gift. It's a beautiful book with poems by many of the talented poets who live in Marin County, California. The anthologist, C.B. Follett, is a poet and an artist; and she has applied both those qualities to the production of this volume. The book has a luminous jacket and various drawings among its poems. The wonderful, thought-provoking but eminently readable poems float in a sea of white, so one can see and think about each one separately. This makes it an excellent book for people like me who always try to read and do too much. I can open it up anywhere at random and spend either a little or a lot of time with it. In fact I like BESIDE THE SLEEPING MAIDEN so much that I've bought several copies and given them away as gifts. ...Susan Terris

A very positive respone to "Beside The sleeping Maiden"

C.B.Follett's "Beside The Sleeping Maiden" is cause for rejoicing. She has gathered poetry and art work reflecting the creative spirit alive in Marin County. It is a coming together of the varied elements making up the rich, spiritual/aesthetic soup that nourishes so many Marinites.This is a feast that will satisfy the appetites of sophisticated as well as general readers, and it is served up in a handsome, imaginative and generous volume that will grace any bookshelf. ................Ruth Daigon, editor of "Poets On: