
Beautiful Waters
Cassie Premo Steele(Author)
Finishing Line Press
Published on 27. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
44 pages
978-1-63534-108-9 (ISBN)
Description
On their honeymoon, two women journey to Oregon and encounter the deeper, painful springs of the state’s history while learning from the land and water how to live, and love, in new ways. Oregon is thought to have been a Native American word for "beautiful waters." In this volume of poetry with the same name, Beautiful Waters, the landscapes of nation and state are seen through the eyes of a woman in love. On her honeymoon in Oregon with her new wife, the poet takes readers with her on a journey through the element of water as a representation of our heart’s deepest natural powers: vulnerability, intimacy, and renewal. The seven poems with titles like "Clouds," "Falls," and "Springs," move beneath the obvious, personal streams into the deeper, underground histories of Westward Expansion, Native American removal, industrialization and commercialization, and environmental destruction. And yet throughout, there are rainbows, blends of color and light and water, leading us to hope for something greater. Beautiful Waters, in the end, shows what might spring from facing these histories: an understanding of our shared connection to the land with its promise of healing our wounds as we learn to live, and love, in new ways.
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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
70 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63534-108-9 (9781635341089)
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Cassie Premo Steele is the author of 13 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and she was a TEDx speaker on the theme of "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering and Making Meaning." She has been a columnist for Literary Mama and a blogger for the Huffington Post. She lives with her wife and daughter in Columbia, South Carolina.
Cassie Premo Steele received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Women's Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the English Department and the Gender and Women's Studies and Comparative Literature Programs at the University of South Carolina. She has been a blogger for the Text and Academic Authors Association.