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Book

Beyond cornfields : poems

Call Number

  • 811 S4388 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Georgetown, Kentucky : Finishing Line Press, 2024.

Physical Description

59 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

"Beyond Cornfields is alive with backroad byways, birds, Pepsi and peanuts, and patchwork landscapes. Seaman begins by saying that everything that would come later spun out from the center of Iowa and her clear-as-day Iowan voice drops sparks of wry humor as deftly as it alludes to grief, made all the more poignant for its spareness. From the family home in Iowa, Seaman spins us outward to Michigan, west to Colorado, past sandhill cranes writing across the broad sky, then farther still to Hawai'i, Mexico, and New Zealand, where she puzzles over a recipe calling for 'blue milk.' But always there is the return home, where life doesn?t have to go far to be a life. I urge you to settle in and read this volume straight through. Allow Seaman's poems to offer you tender comfort as, again and again, she shows you how the world bumps beauty right in front of your eyes"--from publisher description.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.