Author: Sally Stewart Mohney

Publisher: Trp Southern Poetry Breakt

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781680030679

Winner, TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series North Carolina Inhabiting myriad landscapes, including the marshes, rivers, and sounds of the North Carolina foothills, as well as gulfs, floodplains, and the overflowing banks of the Chattahoochee, Sally Stewart Mohney's Low Country, High Water consists of delicate, often minimal explorations of family, mortality, nature, and the world behind perception. Often dreamlike and painterly, these poems brim with a lyrical and imagistic power, a contemplative force that ignites the imagination. With a Dickinsonian penchant for portraying states of mind through telescoped metaphors, Mohney crafts poetry that proves insightful, compassionate, and subtle. Even as this work conveys the transitory nature of our world and the people and places that construct our lives, this poetry glows with mystery, vitality, and timelessness. Communion Salvation can finally come as simply as lighting heat in an early kitchen. You enter, chilly in slippers, start several small fires to find your way. Coffee, chimney, bacon, then toast. Setting out white cups bowls, plates--a creamer pewter spoons. Light pours in, as pale blue mercy