Songs from the Summer Kitchen by Dawn Terpstra

$14.99

 

“Terpstra is that rare poet who weaves narrative and lyric so seamlessly, the reader falls under a powerful spell. Songs from the Summer Kitchen may take just a few hours or a few days to read, but the poems inhabit a space far beyond the pages on which they’re printed. “Sisters, you know how it is:/sleeping face-to-face on the floor in the girls’ room. . .” There is something so exalted and, at times, so arresting at work in this chapbook. Spanning years and continents, Terpstra’s work focuses sharply on a world that can be small as a dandelion and as endless as the horizon. Rendered with care, this collection is a reverie.”

–Dara-Lyn Shrager is the author of Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee

 

Songs from the Summer Kitchen displays the high-craft of a thoughtful poet — excellent images and metaphors …bodies gliding down sidewalks/were fish swimming…. Terpstra takes you to desert and ocean and all the time-trenched places in-between. Poetic skill only the beginning, I hope you also find the epiphany I experienced.  Poetry fosters such insight, permitting the intimate sensual and intimate virtual to mix. Inside Songs, women of many cultures share both faults and blessings — the wisdom of women. In the end, Terpstra herself describes how this work affects the reader: …how empty we arrive/upon this beach, /how quickly we fill/so full of ocean.

 –Dennis Maulsby, Author of Near Death/Near Life 

 

 

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Songs from the Summer Kitchen

by Dawn Terpstra

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-618-2

2021

Dawn Terpstra lives in Iowa where she leads a member relations team in the cooperative energy industry. She has spent a career in communications, including work in radio, corporate marketing, and consulting. She earned master’s degrees from Iowa State University in both anthropology and family studies. Her graduate fieldwork was conducted in Guam and Palau. Her poetry appears in The Night Heron Barks, Briar Cliff Review, Citron Review, Persimmon Tree, San Pedro River Review, SWWIM, Third Wednesday, Eastern Iowa Review, Conestoga Zen, and Lyrical Iowa, plus her work is included in Telepoem Booth Iowa, sponsored by Humanities Iowa. She is a finalist for the Midwest Review’s 2021 Great Midwest Poetry Contest. She produces bi-weekly workshop and poetry reading videocasts for the Iowa Poetry Association.

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