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The lovely poems in What is Left Behind: Garden Elegies are grounded in the past and connect us to the eternal music of spring. Stephanie Marcellus makes skillful use of the language of colorful blooms to convey grief, their scents reminding us of the temporality of life. While there is sorrow here—“I reached for your hand/ but your fingers slipped from my grasp/ like the sweet rocket’s scent on the dawn’s wind”—there is also redemption in the garden’s “life lines” and in taking her “own cure from the earth.”
–Twyla M. Hansen, Nebraska State Poet, author of Rock • Tree • Bird
“Generations of women expressed their need to create art and beauty in the world through the gardens they planted, the flowers they loved. As a descendant of such women, Marcellus knows this is especially true of the prairie women who often had no other way to find expression in a harsh climate. “What is Left Behind” evokes the beauty of the gardens as well as the spirit of the women who planted them. The poems strike a still point between breathless vision and respect-filled hindsight”
–Karen Gettert Shoemaker, Author of The Meaning of Names
What Is Left Behind: Garden Elegies
by Stephanie A. Marcellus
$14.99,paper
978-1-63534-253-6
2017
Stephanie Marcellus is an assistant professor at Wayne State College where she teaches creative writing and literature. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and a PhD from The University of South Dakota. Her work has appeared in Alligator Juniper, the Blue Bear Review, Nebraska Life, among other journals and anthologies.
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