The Dream of the Marsh Wren: Writing as Reciprocal Creation

by Pattiann Rogers

Book Overview

"When a poet spills her secrets, that's a special gift." --KIRKUS

An award-winning poet, a mother, a lover of the land and every creature in it, as well as a student of zoology, the author is at home in the vocabulary of nature. In this work of prose punctuated and intensified by poetry, she describes the genesis of her most admired verse and reveals how and why she writes.

"When a poet spills her secrets, that's a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571312250
• ISBN13: 9781571312259
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

This is an exquisite book of keen wit and redoubtable spirit

I loved the poems in this book!. They are pleasantly elusive, requiring thoughtful participation on the part of the reader, but they are not so abstract as to be incomprehensible. Rogers provides images and language, ideas and propositions, that are precise and innovative. This book is a gift that I will reread as a favorite.