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Ear to the Ground
by Harriet Stratton
Paper
List: $17.99
979-8-88838-486-2
2024
Poems in Ear to the Ground remember Stratton’s father and mother and draw from the lifestyle that like an album of fading snapshots backgrounds her upbringing on a Colorado cattle ranch. There, she learned to remember on a cultural level, too. Traces of things forgotten in have led her to study prehistoric language; pictures written on stone, petroglyphs and pictographs,and marks left on the surface of the earth. In the blender of language remembered and forgot, she strives to interpret the code. As Lawrence Raab writes, “the past isn’t over until we understand it”.
Harriet Stratton’s work has appeared in Pilgrimage Magazine, Windward Review, and among other publications, Passager Journal. “While Making Fence with My Father” was featured in their Burning Bright podcast on Father’s Day, 2022. Her work is anthologized in An Uncertain Age, Poems by Bold Women of a Certain Age (Ink Sisters Press, 2021) and Rumors, Secrets & Lies, Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022). The editors of Anhinga Press nominated Harriet’s poem, “Caught in Amber” for a 2023 Pushcart Prize.
This is her first chapbook.
Harriet lives and writes atop a red rock butte in Perry Park, Colorado. A longtime member of Denver’s Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop, she graduated from the Poetry Book Project and remains a member of the Poetry Collective. Formally educated in Design and Art Education, Stratton practiced what she taught – painting, drawing and printmaking – in a 25-year teaching career.
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