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Salt Runs in My Blood Paperback – February 9, 2015
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- Print length92 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 9, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 0.23 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100986383503
- ISBN-13978-0986383502
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,437,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,217 in Nature Poetry (Books)
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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
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