The Present State of the Garden

by Heather Sellers

Winner of the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry

In The Present State of the Garden, both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker works through layers of loss: the dissolution of a marriage and a world on the brink of ecological collapse. She attempts to patch together some kind of new Eden in these aftermaths and to make a home and family from the remnants--memories from girlhood, a stray aunt and a niece,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899241808
• ISBN13: 9780899241807
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Lynx House Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.4"