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As sailboat captain, rower, flyfisher, gardener, and Quaker naturalist, SUSAN SCHMIDT writes poems about moving from dark into light as she plays in boats and walks long trails. She remembers bright parrots, big trout, gales at sea, glaciers, peach pie, old loves, Celtic ancestry, Civil War battlefields, and learning to navigate. Her Carolina Parakeet poem appears in Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina (UNC Press, 2013). Her Gettysburg poem won the 2012 Guy Owen Poetry Prize. Susan has worked as science-policy analyst and professor of literature and environmental decision-making. Susan now edits books, with the same mindfulness as pruning apple trees, and walks beaches with her Boykin Spaniel, a Silkie like her, happiest wet. Salt Runs in My Blood relates the poet’s personal journey—mostly by boat: her inner flights and actual escape as she loves her family and natural neighbors. Observing birds, she learns her own survival strategies. She travels to New Zealand, Alaska, the West Indies, but stays South where she can name the trees and swim year round. Vulnerable on land, she is more confident on the water. The book could have been called “The Watery Part of the World.” Part I of Salt Runs in My Blood, “Estuary,” opens with the poet’s Chesapeake homeplace; learning to sail from her father whose ancestors were Chesapeake ship captains four hundred years (salt), her mother’s Irish side (soil and ink), Civil War generals, and scuba diving. Falling as a rockclimber, she turns to paddling. Fleeing a scary marriage, she goes to sea. “Open Ocean,” part II, follows her delivering sailboats across oceans to the islands. In “Pocket Water,” part III, she flyfishes in North Carolina mountains, leaves a tired romance, returns to Virginia rivers. In “Sea Level,” part IV, the poet walks the Camino de Santiago and settles on the Carolina coast where she survives hurricanes, rows and swims.

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February 9, 2015
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6 x 0.23 x 9 inches
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0986383503
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978-0986383502
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As developmental editor, SUSAN SCHMIDT polishes science and history books, novels, and memoirs-with the same mindfulness as pruning apple trees. She has been a professor of literature and environmental decision-making, sailboat delivery captain, and government science-policy analyst. She has a doctorate in American literature and a Masters in Environmental Sciences. To witness natural diversity, she walked the Camino de Santiago, Cornwall Coastal Path, Scottish Highlands, Ring of Kerry, and Appalachian Trail; surveyed birds in Kenya and Ecuador; paddled Prince William Sound and Milford Sound; and delivered sailboats to the West Indies. Her homeplace is the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, and her homeport is Beaufort, North Carolina, where she walks beaches with her Boykin Spaniel. Susan Schmidt's two new books are Song of Moving Water, an environmental novel where a young woman organizes a mountain community to fight a proposed dam, and Salt Runs in My Blood-poems about journeys in boats and walking long trails. Her poems appear in Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina and won the 2012 Guy Owen Poetry Prize. She wrote Landfall Along the Chesapeake, In the Wake of Captain John Smith (Johns Hopkins University Press), an ecological history and boat adventure.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kakapo Press (February 9, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 92 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0986383503
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0986383502
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.23 x 9 inches

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Waves of words.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2014

"If They Came Our Way" (Owen prize winner) moves steadily, authoritatively, all the while building a quiet intensity, right up to its stunning, unforced conclusion. Sounds interweave, setting up a texture that pulled me in right away. I admire this poem very much, its pacing, its lineation, its careful yet emotionally wrenching detail. —Kathryn Stripling Byer

The opening line of Salt Runs in My Blood quotes a neighbor's advice: "Remember where you come from." Susan Schmidt takes this to heart, exploring deep roots in Virginia and North Carolina. She is an intrepid explorer (New Zealand, Alaska, West Indies), approaching adventures with curiosity and wonder. Rarely do we experience the natural world through the eyes of such a keen observer, who understands the search for identity begins in the waters at home. With this lovely book she earns our trust in her skill as a gifted poet and a guide down the twisting river of the soul. —Lee Robinson

Susan Schmidt’s poetry is tidal, seasonal, evolutionary. Traveling by wind, muscle, and memory from the Chesapeake to the Camino de Santiago, she sings like a Silkie with a human heart—about risk, loss, and resilience. Songs of her father are personal and epic. She sights birds near extinction or already lost. Her poems consider both her own fate and the planet. Schmidt writes a true line that skims, like her boat, over the surface of time and place. —Sandy Morgan

Her eye for detail, her vision of the inner core of what she finds in Nature, her ideas as they come through imagery: Susan Schmidt can be a writer who matters. —Richard Krawiec

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 2, 2015

From a Connecticut Quaker mother and a native Virginia businessman father, Susan Schmidt became a combination of an English teacher, botanist, and naturalist intent on doing no harm and the practical, analytical investor unafraid of nature or dangers. In following the steps of Captain John Smith’s travels around the Chesapeake, she single hands a boat around the Bay using skills taught to her by her father who himself spent the night hanging onto the mast of a sunken sloop. In “Salt Runs in My Blood” her feminine side predominates but still create poems meaningful to members off both sexes.

But it is more than her heritage that contributes to the insights and perceptions of the book. From her own varied experiences and unique observations come wonders observed by others but not so well characterized. St. George Pinckney

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Donna Robertson

Like a beautiful painting....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 24, 2016

This is a book I can hardly put down....so eager to get from one poem to the next. As an artist of sky and sea, this book seems to me like a beautiful painting with great depth. A gallery owner once said to me "Every painting has a history..." so does this book. The imagery is wonderful, as is the language. I will share it with my daughter, who is also an incredible writer....

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AWilliams

This book is a very honest account of life. ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2016

This book is a very honest account of life. It actually reminds me of the things we think, rather than the things we might say. I became intrigued and found myself reading much to quickly to take in all that was being written about, so there are parts I have read several times. Very well written with incite straight from the heart.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2016

As a native Carolinian now living in California, this poetry takes me home, washes me in Atlantic brine and makes me new again. It is not the geographical locale of the poems which makes it so- it is the familiar and familial coastal voice of the poet. Salt of the sea? Perhaps. Salt of the earth? No doubt.

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E Haugen

A shared love of NC shores and mountains

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 24, 2016

I read Susan's poetry while convalescing during a grey winter day in Maine; each line brought alive shared memories of magical Beaufort ,NC marshes and sunny waters of NC Banks . The reader can feel and envision the many facets of a life well lived with ferocious ecological and physical intention. I was transported to sunny views!

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This book combines lyricism with a very precise observation of ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2016

This book combines lyricism with a very precise observation of nature, reflecting its author's combination of literary and scientific backgrounds. The poems spoke to me and to many of my students. Her visit to our school was stimulating and truly educational. Thanks and kudos to Susan Schmidt.

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