Casting Seeds

By Donny Winter

In his first chapbook collection of poems, Donny Winter takes readers back to his childhood growing up in rural Northern Michigan. Written entirely in the Japanese tanka form, these poems invite readers to join him at the kitchen table with his Grandma Winter to enjoy a cup of tea and watch the natural world. Casting Seeds acts as a love letter to his grandmother, her house, and his family's property - all of which still bearing the warmth of childhood memory. Through these poems, Winter seeks to cast for others the same seeds his grandmother planted in him - a knowledge that we linger in the spaces we inhabit, leave imprints of ourselves for others to harvest, and possess the power to rebuild ourselves into beings free from our childhood bullies. "Casting Seeds is a reliquary of childhood. It will transport the reader back to those summer days, sitting on their porch in the twilight, fireflies lighting up the night, but in a way that is self-reflective and true to the storm of emotions that those memories can bring. Beautiful, time-honoring, and nature-filled, Casting Seeds is a joy to read and would make any grandmother - Jack Pine or Lofty Oak - proud to be its inspiration" - H.M. Kanicki, author of The Airless Door

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BL4Y86Q9
• ISBN13: 9798361443994
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"