Waterborne

A stirring, brilliantly crafted collection, Linda Gregerson's third volume of poetry examines mortality in all its beauty and horror. Fluently rendered in Gregerson's distinctive three-line stanzas, these poems explore subjects from autism to genealogy to ecology. Their occasions are diverse -- a barn fire, a wounded deer, a child's determined struggle with a bicycle -- but their instinct is always to wrest from the impure world a vernacular of praise. How does a poet find praise in a world marked by both beauty and horror? Award-Winning Poetry: Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, this collection showcases the masterful craft and intellectual rigor that has made Linda Gregerson one of her generation’s most acclaimed voices. Poems about History and Memory: From the trials of New England colonists to the quiet grief of a family, these poems traverse centuries to find the human heart of the past. Unflinching Look at Mortality: A wounded deer, a barn fire, a child’s illness—Gregerson confronts the difficult moments of life and death with precision and grace. Nature and Ecology: The collection finds profound meaning in the natural world, from a river that “makes some difference” to the complex life of a rural landscape.