This Place of Wanting Nothing by Jeri Lewis Edwards

Jeri Lewis Edwards is a mixed media artist, poet, and naturalist residing along the Central Coast of California. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poems and visual art have been published in numerous literary journals such as Dulcet Literary Magazine, Silver Birch Press, Poet Lore, Naugatuck River Review, The Penn Review, The Stillwater Review, Cool Beans Lit, Long River Review, The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, Green Ink Poetry, Wild Roof Journal, among many others. Every day you’ll find her out walking or hiking with her rescue dogs, and in her art studio, 2Ravens Studio, endeavoring each day to learn something from nature and from her art.  You can find some of her work on her Instagram account: @Jeri2ravensstudio

PRAISE:

Poet Jeri Lewis Edwards is one of our very best environmental writers to date.  Capable of turning language into a sixth sense, her stunning chapbook, This Place of Wanting Nothing, transforms sight into insight and moment into momentum.  This book is a gift.  Jeri Lewis Edwards is entreating the earth and us into an honest intimate dialogue.  On a terrain between longing and loss where her attention might “begin again at a raven in flight,” so too can a marmot’s “scurrying across the bridal veil precipice” of ice and snow become the writer’s own journey reminder that “today is tomorrow” for earth and all living things.  Her captivating mediation relationships (nature, marriage, identity) are as playful as they are deadly serious, as universally visionary as they are personable, “small improbable green” delights that will wow you with their “dips and swales of every turn.”

–Elena Karina Byrne, author of If This Makes You Nervous