
A Time of Waiting
Poems
Charlotte Melin(Author)
Finishing Line Press
Published on 27. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
28 pages
979-8-89990-431-8 (ISBN)
Description
Twilight stillness, long drives across the Midwest, migrating flocks, the redolent smells of basil and peaches become occasions in this collection for noticing seasonal transitions, environmental change, and human precarity. Those crisscrossing perceptions also give voice to hopes for common ground. Written mostly in 2024 and shaped in the weeks following the election, this cycle of poems moves from January to Midsummer and the December solstice. It asks implicitly whether poetry can be a kind of resistance that bears witness to the past and present by thinking about how life's small moments ground us in cyclical time even as we wait on the cusp of an uncertain future.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
51 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-89990-431-8 (9798899904318)
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Retired as a professor of German studies from the University of Minnesota, Charlotte Melin has published widely about German poetry, language teaching, and the environmental humanities. Returning to earlier interests in writing, her recent poems have appeared online at Canary, Flying Island, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, in the Northfield anthoogy Bridge and Division (2023) and other venues.