{"id":484,"date":"2014-07-20T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=484"},"modified":"2014-07-20T16:20:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T23:20:06","slug":"my-new-poetry-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maureeneppstein.com\/mve_journal\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"My new poetry collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Earthward<\/a>

Cover image by Tony Eppstein<\/p><\/div>\n

I am excited to announce that Finishing Line Press is now taking pre-publication orders\u00a0 for my new poetry collection, Earthward<\/em>. It can be ordered now and will be printed and shipped in October. You can order online from the publisher at https:\/\/finishinglinepress.com\/product_info.php?cPath=4&products_id=2129 <\/a><\/p>\n

The cost is $14 plus $2.99 shipping. The publisher bases the size of the print run on how many pre-publication orders they receive, so I hope you\u2019ll consider adding to my tally. Please feel free to suggest this book to others you think might be interested too.<\/p>\n

The poems in Earthward<\/em> explore the cyclical patterns of life. Here is a sample poem:<\/p>\n

Osprey With Fish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Undercarriage of leg and talon<\/p>\n

joins two bodies similar<\/p>\n

in sleekness,<\/p>\n

twinned<\/p>\n

as life and death conjoin<\/p>\n

in a continuum<\/p>\n

of nourishment.<\/p>\n

Huge wings slow over forest,<\/p>\n

a fading cry.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been honored to receive reviews from poets I admire:<\/p>\n

With a naturalist\u2019s eye for the precise and sensuous image and a writer\u2019s care for the precise and sensuous word, Maureen Eppstein plants our human griefs into this book, roots them, and invites them to quicken into new life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Jane Hirshfield, author of Come, Thief<\/em><\/p>\n

What captivates me about Earthward<\/em> is the way Maureen Eppstein transforms ordinary landscapes into miraculous acts of affirmation. Turning compost becomes an opportunity to ponder death and resurrection, braiding garlic reminds us of the \u201cpleasure taken in braiding the hair of the beloved\u201d.\u00a0 This is poetry of quiet lyrical depth, that reconnects us with land and spirit. Earthward<\/em> invites us to stand deeply rooted in each moment, \u201cin awe and wild surmise at all this human brain can not yet comprehend.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Devreaux Baker, author of Red Willow People<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0In Earthward<\/em>, Maureen Eppstein unites what would break us with what will bring us back to life. The wild ones, like us, must eat, and so kill.\u00a0 Lost sisters are mourned by proxy.\u00a0 Some things we love are transplanted and transplanted again, surviving and sometimes thriving. The tenacity Eppstein describes is the foundation of our lives.\u00a0 There are those who say that to write about the extraordinary one must look lovingly at the ordinary.\u00a0 Eppstein knows where, and how, to look.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Camille T. Dungy, author of Smith Blue<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a brief bio:<\/p>\n

Maureen Eppstein is the author of two previous poetry collection: Rogue Wave at Glass Beach<\/em> (2009) and Quickening<\/em> (2007), both published by March Street Press. Quickening<\/em> was also first runner-up in the 2007 Finishing Line Press\/ New Women\u2019s Voices competition. She has been a finalist in several other book contests. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poecology, Calyx, Basalt, Written River, Sand Hill Review<\/em>, and Aesthetica 2014<\/em>, \u00a0and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Crossing the boundary between the arts and the sciences, her poems have been included in a textbook on computer graphics and geometric modeling and used in a university-level geology course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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