Waiting to Sail: poems by Georgia Ressmeyer

By Georgia Ressmeyer

Waiting to Sail, a collection of poems by Wisconsin poet Georgia Ressmeyer, approaches the reader through several different doors: that of a New York-born "preacher's kid" trying to escape the special scrutiny that role attracts by retreating into reading, swimming, and sailing on Long Island's North Fork; an attorney representing clients with mental illnesses or disabilities in Milwaukee; an adult daughter helping to walk her much-loved parents through decline and death; a poet in Sheboygan reveling in the natural beauty of her adopted state, from the Ice-Age Trail to the dunes and shoreline of Lake Michigan to the birds and plant-life of her own backyard. Written in a range of styles -- lyrical, narrative, humorous, formal, and free -- Ressmeyer's poems embrace the sorrows and joys of her own life as well as those of the people and creatures around her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985718994
• ISBN13: 9780985718992
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Black River Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"