The taste of a penny. Running for the bus. Carpets rolled and stacked like logs into a child's mountain. Laura Shovan mines gems from the everyday caverns of life. From these moments Shovan collected Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone, inaugural winner of the Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize. The prize is named in honor of Clarinda Harriss, eminent Baltimore poet, publisher, and professor of English at Towson University. Harriss, educated at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College, is a widely published, award-winning poet. She also serves as editor and director of BrickHouse Books, Maryland's oldest literary press. In rounds of blind judging, Shovan's entry topped submissions by finalists from Oregon and Washington state. Nearly forty writers entered CityLit Press's first chapbook contest, which was judged by art critic and poet Michael Salcman.
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Even if you've never particularly liked poetry, or were scarred by your high school or college English professor's poetry picks, you'll like this book! Ms. Shovan writes from the perspective of daughter, sister, wife and mother. You see her growth as a person and a poet through these poems. You can feel and touch and smell and see through her words. And the poems are about things we can all relate to. To experience these things through somebody else's words and have her words evoke your own emotions and memories is wonderful. It's not a tome to get through because you think it might be good for you. It's a short, delightful book that will make you laugh, cry and think.
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I loved it. Should appeal to just about anyone. Definitely worthy of the award it received.
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