These Few Seeds - Sterling, Meghan
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Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations of new motherhood, there is an undercurrent of foreboding about the kind of world we are bequeathing to our children-a world ravaged by environmental degradation and political strife. But Meghan Sterling's unflinching depiction of the imperiled world that her daughter will likely inherit is tempered by the abiding lessons of her Jewish ancestral history, a reverence for the natural world in all its seemingly unstoppable splendor, and an unquenchable hope that the future is ours to redeem: ". . . to you I bequeath /…mehr

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Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations of new motherhood, there is an undercurrent of foreboding about the kind of world we are bequeathing to our children-a world ravaged by environmental degradation and political strife. But Meghan Sterling's unflinching depiction of the imperiled world that her daughter will likely inherit is tempered by the abiding lessons of her Jewish ancestral history, a reverence for the natural world in all its seemingly unstoppable splendor, and an unquenchable hope that the future is ours to redeem: ". . . to you I bequeath / all the courage / of birds and flowers, / water and stones, / to love enough, / to love with the toughness of trees." -Richard Foerster
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Autorenporträt
Multi-Pushcart Nominee Meghan Sterling (she, her, hers) hasbeen published or has work forthcoming in Meridian, HungerMountain, The Los Angeles Review, Rhino Poetry, Rattle, ColoradoReview and many other journals. She has been a HewnoaksFellow and a Dibner Fellow. Her first full length collectionThese Few Seeds (Terrapin Books) came out in 2021 and was anHonorable Mention for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize inPoetry. Her chapbook, Self Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora(Harbor Editions), her second full length collection, View froma Borrowed Field, which won the Paul Nemser Poetry Prize (LilyPoetry Review) and her third full-length collection, Comfort theMourners (Everybody Press) all came out in 2023. She lives inMaine with her family, works as a professional writer and teachespoetry workshops. Read her work at meghansterling.com.