Dowser's Apprentice - Softcover

Wickes, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984035281 ISBN 13: 9780984035281

Publisher: Glass Lyre Press, 2014

Synopsis

Dowser's Apprentice takes us directly yet deeply into daily life with news of canyon and desert, crop dust, and snow. "Hurry up and break / into life" the poems say. They steady themselves in the sky ("It's a night of fat, bright planets"), look up to the sun and stars ("The Milky Way above us - / that's our shadow river"), and move across the land, from rural California to the "undulant, green Pyrenees," to make a cosmology that we can all share. - Joyce Jenkins, editor of Poetry Flash

About this title

About the Author

Helen Wickes was born on a farm in Pennsylvania. She lives and writes in Oakland, California, where for many years she worked as a psychotherapist. Helen has an MFA from the Bennington Writers' Seminars. In Search of Landscape is her first collection of poems. It was published in 2007 by Sixteen Rivers Press, a shared work, non-profit, small press that publishes two poetry books a year by Bay Area poets. Helen's work has been published in Runes, Zyzzyva, Santa Clara Review, 5 A.M., In the Grove, The Bennington Review, and forthcoming in Poetry Flash and in Porcupine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Glass Lyre Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984035281
• ISBN 13: 9780984035281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102