Let Nothing Be Lost

By Linda Whittenberg

These poems come from the heart of place, with the Midwest of childhood, the Ireland of ancestry, and the New Mexico of the present. A starting point might be mixing cornbread in a blue bowl-but the journey is to piece the world together. Joy and sorrow, understanding and mystery, the past and present all hold up their ends of poetic metaphor. The work is gentle and reflective in tone, yet with a fierce sense of life rushing through.Miriam Sagan: Author of more than twenty books of essays, memoir, and poetry, is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Fe Community College. Her most recent work is Seven Places In America: A Poetic Sojourn. Linda Whittenberg's poetry springs from a rich fund of experience and is at once objective and imaginative. Let Nothing Be Lost is a collection well worth finding and keeping. N. Scott Momaday: Pulitzer Prize winning author and artist. His most recent collection of poems is Again the Far Morning, UNM Press, 2011. Image-rich and musically astute: Linda Whittenberg's poetry touches both the world and us, and we are the better for it-enlivened, our heart's lifted. Here is story made vivid by detail, lines clean and sure as horizon, lyric, sensual re-membering: a salty Bardic wholeness we taste and touch, in this alert and crafted collection. Enough, Plenty, Welcome, she says, a fitting invocation for the wise and generous gift of her poems. Judyth Hill: Poet, teacher, food expert, workshop leader, performer, lives in Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her most recent collection of poems is Dazzling Wobble, Future Cycle Press, 2013.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692237569
• ISBN13: 9780692237564
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"