Snake in the Parsonage

By Jean Janzen

Book Overview

Snake in the Parsonage includes the poems for which Jean Janzen received The Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Selected by a panel of major poets. Once again Jean Janzen shows us life -- colored deeply and in irrepressible light. She finds both ecstasy and incompleteness -- while waiting, at the piano and in the halls of the old people's home, lying in the field, shrieking in the cellar, standing at the blackboard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561481777
• ISBN13: 9781561481774
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Good Books
• Length: 73 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Memories

Growing up in Minnesota, Jean and I shared many experiences during those early years. Her serious reflective mood often puzzled me--a free spirited live-for-the-moment type of personality. Still being dear friends after all those years, I now appreciate her kind and often humorous perspective on life in a small Mennonite town. Her poetry speaks to my heart giving me a sense of connectedness to my past in a way I would have never enjoyed without her marvelous poetry.