My Kindred

By Paulann Petersen

Balancing curiosity, beauty, surprise, and the weight of mortality, this book's kinship embraces multitudes: fir, owl, manatee, and pollen; sun, sea, lily, and snake; the poet's parents, Paul and Grace Whitman; the Good Gray Poet Whitman. Each poem bears witness to concentricity--the poet inviting trees to live inside her, a tree expanding itself to accept her body. Some of the poet's kindred--the Biblical Eve, water's sister, a lake, the moon, everyday moths, and more--speak for themselves. What's mundane is never merely that. In this kinship, the commonplace carries a wild sentience, a mythic and sacred essence. Like the hummingbird, these poems pull--from our all too dark world--a thread of sweetness and bounty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915022355
• ISBN13: 9781915022356
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"