Margaret Lee is a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist. She finds poems in the Oklahoma woodlands and prairies, New Mexico deserts, Oregon seashores, and inner landscapes. Margaret’s previous chapbooks with Finishing Line Press include Someone Else’s Earth (2021), Sagebrush Songs (2022), Oklahoma Summer (2023) and Orange Persphone (2025.) Her poems have also appeared in From Behind the Mask, (Paperback-Press 2020), Echoes of Tradition: Indigenous Orientation to Community, Time, and Land (Tulsa NightWriters 2024), The Atlanta Review and Pangyrus. Her academic research and publications focus on the ancient Greek language and the history and culture of the ancient world.
PRAISE:
In this elegant and beautifully crafted collection of poems, Lee, a Greek scholar, has merged with Sappho—first as inspiration, then in deeper communion. Longing is compressed into theme, “I dive for missing pieces.” The book is a becoming, and in becoming, there is fusion with the prompting body. “I lavish my attention/on the journey of Becoming,” she announces. Lee is in a dialogue that fuses the two poets. Sappho also serves as entrance to the natural world: “Sweet clover and I/ran wild in summer.” Here is a poet tuned into “False boundary of the body,/a stand of aspen/joined underground.” While she uses myth, it is to further the understanding of the Feminine. Lee’s mother-daughter poem, In Parallel, is alarmingly beautiful, as it ends: “…the muffled click—/your bedroom door-latch—/white barrier//inbreath/when I saw/the scar.”
–Veronica Golos, author of GIRL.
This collection embraces all the various aspects of womanhood and the constant changing that occurs, like the persistent flowing of water. It reminded me of my own child-like self and warrior-creator-mother-self.
–Aubrey Green – editor at Blue Clover Editing; managing editor with eMerge Magazine
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