Washed and Dried by Nancy Swanson

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Washed and Dried explores the weathers and terrains of time itself; Swanson’s perceptions are luminous as these vivid, peripatetic lyric narratives wander through scenes of childhood and family life and a range of  settings in the American South, Hawaii, and Europe–“what you can remember, imagine, pass on/ but never own.”

–Claire Bateman, author of Wonders of the Invisible World, Scape, and others

 

Water is a central image in this fine collection, for these poems bring memories to the surface. The tone is often elegiac, yet the evocative language, as when a a lighthouse’s winding stair becomes “A darkened, hollow echo,” allows the reader to experience the poignancy of loss but also the pleasure of words strikingly rendered.

–Ron Rash

 

 

 

 

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Washed and Dried

by Nancy Swanson

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979-8-88838-690-3

2024

The narrator of Washed and Dried speaks from a foggy road, a lighthouse, the flowerbed in front of her ghostly home, a midstream rock, the desert, a childhood steeped in the south. The result is a series of recollections on family, change, and loss. Readers will recognize the hero and main character, who emerges in real, imaged, and perilous states: hurricane, pools, rising seas, creeks and rivers, canals, mist, mud puddles, flakes of snow.

Nancy Swanson is a child of the South, explorer, parent, student of nature, and long-standing teacher who found poetic voice in her own classroom. Her work has been published by Broad River Review, Chattahoochee Review, Comstock Review, English Journal, Kakalak, North Carolina Literary Review, and South Carolina Review, among others.

After living on Maui for two years, she and her husband retired in western North Carolina. There she was awarded the Sideny Lanier Poetry Prize, judged by George Bilgere. In 2023, she won second place in the James Applewhite Poetry Contest. Washed and Dried is her first published collection.

 

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