Source of the River by Deborah Fleming

$14.99

 

Deborah Fleming’s latest collection of poems SOURCE OF THE RIVER explores the travels of Sir Richard Burton, among others, to such exotic places as Zanzibar where “we gazed on slope-roofed huts / of Tumbatu and Hadima, merchants’ palaces / turned scarlet by the setting sun,” and also destinations closer to home like the Ohio Country  “where wild flowers decorate a meadow / in the midst of giant forest groves.”  Fleming captivates her readers with hallowed places filled with “prayers and a swarm of bees,” and “stories of magic horses / living in the river-bottom that rose at full moon-time.”  Fleming’s poetry is gripping from journey to journey.

–Leah Maines, best-selling, award-winning author, editor and actor

 

 

 

 

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Source of the River

by Deborah Fleming

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-413-4

2018

Deborah Fleming is author of two previous collections of poems, Morning, Winter Solstice (2012) and Into a New Country (2016), as well as a chapbook, Migrations (2005), and a novel, Without Leave (2014), winner of the Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press.  She has also published “A man who does not exist”: The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (1995), Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats’s Influence on Robinson Jeffers (2015), W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism (2000), and Learning the Trade: W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry (1992) as well as articles on Yeats, Jeffers, Eamon Grennan, and Aldo Leopold.  Four of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  Winner of a Vandewater Poetry Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Council of Learned Societies, she is director and editor of the Ashland Poetry Press.  Currently she lives on a farm in northeast Ohio.

 

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