Wyndmere

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480484832

<DIV><B>Poems on the power of memory and the shading of past into present</B><BR /><BR />In this enthralling collection, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California Carol Muske-Dukes composes a lyrical autobiography, tracing her family history from the Dakota prairie to her new life as a young mother in Los Angeles. In &ldquo;The Separator,&rdquo; Muske-Dukes writes of her grandfather, a wheat farmer, winnowing, threshing, planting a future in the deep black soil of Wyndmere, North Dakota. In &ldquo;Biglietto d&rsquo;Ingresso,&rdquo; she recalls a perfect day in Tuscany, spent with her future husband in a town overlooking a wine valley. &ldquo;August, Los Angeles, Lullaby&rdquo; is a lulling yet harrowing description of the wonder of a mother holding her newborn child&mdash;and her own fragility, encountering mortality&mdash;as a hummingbird touches the hourglass of the feeder outside the window . . . then is gone.<BR /></DIV>