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Coming September 15, Preorder now
For half a century Sally Green has been the caretaker of words belonging to other poets, designing and printing books and broadsides as copublisher of the award-winning Brooding Heron Press. During all those years she was also developing her own poetic voice forged from a daily immersion in meaningful work, family, community, and place. In Tending the Flock, the remarkable attention to detail that brought her praise as a letterpress printer is also present in her poems, which former Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan has called “poems of grace and wisdom,” words treated as though they matter. Whether describing daily life on Waldron Island or adopting the commonsense voice of Aunt Mabel, this is a poet of humility and compassion whose unique way of encountering the world enriches us all.
“With a deeply engaging and sure-hearted touch that completely lives up to expectations, Sally Green’s poems define, span, and capture the enduring essence of life in rural Washington from every conceivable angle. Her intense connection to generations of characters, including the uniquely compelling Aunt Mabel, as well as to the natural world, gives Tending the Flock an indelible presence that brings every detail of spirit, gravity, humor, and devotion to life.” —Barry Sternlieb, author of Sole Impressions
“Sally Green knows the outsides and the insides of words as an acclaimed letterpress printer, but even more importantly as a poet. In Tending the Flock, she’s gathered poignant insights through and around the persona of Aunt Mabel as she gardens, gathers, and thinks back on western meadowlarks whose voice ‘shimmered like heat waves.’ Each poem, like lovely feathers, ‘lifts, then falls toward flight.’ She knows well the Roman proverb: ‘A heard voice perishes, but the written word remains.’” —Sharon Hashimoto, winner of a Washington State Book Award for More American
For over forty years, Sally Green has lived off the grid on an isolated island in the Salish Sea on a homestead she and her husband built from scratch. Hers is a life only incrementally more modern than those of the original pioneer homesteaders—a life that’s finely attuned to the natural world. The poems in Tending the Flock are so carefully crafted and arranged that, page by page, I felt myself immersed more deeply in this unique poet’s sensibility, which is based on keen observations and a seemingly innate, almost genetic, kinship with the rural past. You will too. —Gary Thompson, author of Broken by Water: Salish Sea Years
$18.00
ISBN 979-8-9952981-1-3 paper
Coming September 15, Preorder now
For half a century Sally Green has been the caretaker of words belonging to other poets, designing and printing books and broadsides as copublisher of the award-winning Brooding Heron Press. During all those years she was also developing her own poetic voice forged from a daily immersion in meaningful work, family, community, and place. In Tending the Flock, the remarkable attention to detail that brought her praise as a letterpress printer is also present in her poems, which former Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan has called “poems of grace and wisdom,” words treated as though they matter. Whether describing daily life on Waldron Island or adopting the commonsense voice of Aunt Mabel, this is a poet of humility and compassion whose unique way of encountering the world enriches us all.
“With a deeply engaging and sure-hearted touch that completely lives up to expectations, Sally Green’s poems define, span, and capture the enduring essence of life in rural Washington from every conceivable angle. Her intense connection to generations of characters, including the uniquely compelling Aunt Mabel, as well as to the natural world, gives Tending the Flock an indelible presence that brings every detail of spirit, gravity, humor, and devotion to life.” —Barry Sternlieb, author of Sole Impressions
“Sally Green knows the outsides and the insides of words as an acclaimed letterpress printer, but even more importantly as a poet. In Tending the Flock, she’s gathered poignant insights through and around the persona of Aunt Mabel as she gardens, gathers, and thinks back on western meadowlarks whose voice ‘shimmered like heat waves.’ Each poem, like lovely feathers, ‘lifts, then falls toward flight.’ She knows well the Roman proverb: ‘A heard voice perishes, but the written word remains.’” —Sharon Hashimoto, winner of a Washington State Book Award for More American
For over forty years, Sally Green has lived off the grid on an isolated island in the Salish Sea on a homestead she and her husband built from scratch. Hers is a life only incrementally more modern than those of the original pioneer homesteaders—a life that’s finely attuned to the natural world. The poems in Tending the Flock are so carefully crafted and arranged that, page by page, I felt myself immersed more deeply in this unique poet’s sensibility, which is based on keen observations and a seemingly innate, almost genetic, kinship with the rural past. You will too. —Gary Thompson, author of Broken by Water: Salish Sea Years
$18.00
ISBN 979-8-9952981-1-3 paper