The Pear Tree: elegy for a farm

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Product Details

Price
$17.99  $16.73
Publisher
Moonpath Press
Publish Date
Pages
88
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.21 inches | 0.31 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781936657803

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About the Author

Christopher J. Jarmick is a Seattle Area writer and a former Los Angeles TV producer who curates and hosts monthly poetry readings and special events. He has performed his own poetry at numerous venues (mostly on the West Coast) for many years and has given lectures, been part of writer conference panels, and given workshops. Other kind souls have published several things he's written (essays, reviews of poems, interviews, stories, editorials) in local and national magazines, newspapers, literary journals and online. His online film reviews have over 3 million page views.

Reviews

Bethany Reid's The Pear Tree: elegy for a farm is more than a haunting elegy for a farm; it's a powerful evocation of childhood and a vanished way of life. In poems lush with detail, Reid renders the beauty and suffering of bygone days, not with nostalgia but with clear-eyed honesty, as each poem reveals its hidden facets. Under the watchful eye of a pear tree planted by a grandmother on homesteaded land, we witness the pleasure of day-to-day life rooted in the earth, the heart-wrenching loss of a brother, a father "who taught us to choose what matters and put a fence around it," a devout mother who can still play the piano when words have flown. "Who will gather what we leave behind?" one poem asks. Moving freely back and forth in time, this well-steeped, finely-honed collection offers a complex, satisfying answer.

-Holly J. Hughes, author of Hold Fast


Packed with a century of images and sensory, sensual detail of Southwest Washington logging, farming, and family, this book transported me across time, place, and generations. More than a collection of poems, The Pear Tree expands these people and this place into an inspirational lament, lifting family and home to epic levels of life and struggle, love and wonder.

-Paul Marshall, author of Stealing Foundation Stones


The Pear Tree: elegy for a farm unequivocally establishes Bethany Reid as one of the foremost poets of the Pacific Northwest. The poems, vulnerable and full of tenderness, fairly glitter with the detail and deep past of a childhood home on Elk Creek in Lewis County, Washington State.

This book is a great gift.

-Priscilla Long, author of Crossing Over: Poems and Holy Magic