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Sagebrush Songs
by Margaret Lee
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-756-1
2022
Sagebrush Songs arises from the northern New Mexico landscape, remote and unique. The area encompasses the Rio Grande rift and the Taos plateau, a desert mesa encircled by the mountains of the Tusas and Sangre de Christo ranges of the southern Rockies. Prominent features include Wheeler Peak, the highest point in New Mexico, and Pueblo Peak (locally known as Taos Mountain), source of the Taos Pueblo’s water supply. As a transitional zone between alpine forests and shortgrass prairie, the sagebrush scrubland supports diverse animal and plant communities. Such landscapes and their empty spaces became the primary focus of classical Chinese poetry, with its Taoist and Ch’an Buddhist roots. Sagebrush Songs is my own meditation on northern New Mexico landscapes as manifestations of the Way of all things.
Poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist, Margaret Lee finds poems in Oklahoma prairies, New Mexico deserts, Oregon seashores, and inner landscapes. Margaret earned a B.A. in History from Seattle University, Seattle, WA; an M.Div. from Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, OK; and a Th.D. from the Melbourne College of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. Her academic research and publications focus on the ancient Greek language and the history and culture of the ancient world. Her first poetry chapbook, Someone Else’s Earth (Finishing Line Press 2021), builds poems around the surviving fragments of Sappho, “The Poetess” of ancient Greece.
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