Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie by Janet McMillan Rives

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Journey with Janet McMillian Rives Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie where we are treated to her keen observations of a singular place that clearly holds her heart. These well-crafted poems offer moments of understanding that can transform our thinking; What inspires this woman to “stop and look and love this land.” What is “reason enough for a wave” on a long stretch of road. What’s under the palate of color and behind the “click, click, clicks,” of a full-moon capture. Rives poems witness what has vanished, what lingers in places abandoned, and the dynamic beauty of this sweeping landscape. Be prepared to share her awe and discovery on the roads she travels in Nebraska and Iowa.

–Marge Pellegrino, Coauthor of Neon Words: 10 Brilliant Ways to Light up Your Writing

 

I recommend Janet Rives’s Into This Sea of Green to all of my writing friends and students. Her book overflows with precise and descriptive language, and this artistic look at the world through which she travels is a testament to her observational skills. “Called to Stay,” “Amish Roofers,” “The Trees Tell the Story,” “No Caboose,” and “Sandhills Wildflowers” pull the reader into past scenes, important conversations, and memories that illustrate a life well lived.

–David Martin, Editor of the Fine Lines journal

 

 

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Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie

by Janet McMillan Rives

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-339-6

2020

Janet McMillan Rives resides in Tucson, Arizona.  She was born and raised in Connecticut and spent most of her adult life in Iowa where she retired as professor of economics from the University of Northern Iowa.  Her poems have appeared in Lyrical Iowa, Ekphrastic Review, Sandcutters, The Avocet, Unstrung, The Blue Guitar, Fine Lines, and in the anthologies Voices from the Plains, Facing West, Desert Tracks: Poems from the Sonoran Desert, and The Very Edge (forthcoming).

2 reviews for Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie by Janet McMillan Rives

  1. Caryl Sharp (verified owner) –

    Into this Sea of Green is a delightful group of poems that for me are a vivid recollection of memories of the prairie. The poems are clearly written that inspires me to read them over and over. A lovely book.

  2. Bonnie Wehle (verified owner) –

    Into This Sea of Green: Poems of the Prairie is nothing less than a 25-poem ode to the midwestern grasslands of the title. With these poems, Janet Rives draws word pictures of a part of the country, which if we happened not to appreciate it before reading this book, we certainly do afterwards. It is in turn endearing, poignant and nostalgic. These are love poems to the landscape, creatures, people, history and colors of the American prairie. In beautifully crafted language, we learn, among other things, how the poet arrived and heard its bird call her to stay, what she loved—sharing the country roads with waving boys, and what she mourns—trees and lilac bushes bereft of their farmhouses and families. Beautiful.

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