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The Farmgirl Poems

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These nostalgic poems have a humble simplicity to them reflective of the land and time they sprung from. They remind me so much of my own childhood, growing up in the country, developing a spiritual connection to the world, humanity, and the cosmos through the land itself. Beautiful.

I usually find contemporary poetry to be cryptic and deliberately obscure, but this wonderful, moving book of poetry avoided these characteristics while being elusive enough to be evocative, full of feeling, and suffused with moods perceived on the threshhold of the conscious and unconscious. The poems are warm and alive with the varied textures of life in mid-20th century rural Kentucky and yet this very concreteness opens up into the universal themes of the human experience in a quiet, understated manner. It is the mark of true inspiration, talent, and craftsmanship to strike these balances just right like this.