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Emblems
by Carol Nolde
$19.99, Full-length, paper
978-1-64662-286-3
2020
Carol Nolde and her husband live in Westfield, New Jersey, where she taught English and creative writing and for many years was an associate editor for Merlyn’s Pen, a national magazine of teenage writers.
She and her family spend part of each year in Sullivan County, New York, in the foothills of the Catskills, where her ancestors settled in the early 19th century. She grew up in the house her great-grandparents built on the land cleared for farming by her great-great grandparents, immigrants from Ireland. The photograph on the cover (c. 1901) is of Georgina Taylor Stephenson, Nolde’s great grandmother, and her son James, Nolde’s grandfather, from whom she developed a deep appreciation of her heritage. Nolde’s poetry reflects a life steeped in family history and the history of the region.
Her poems have appeared in many publications including the anthologies Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places, the second edition of Love Is Ageless-Stories About Alzheimer’s Disease, Child of My Child, Joys of the Table, and Forgotten Women. She is the author of the chapbook Comfort in Stone (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and the chapbook Things Live After (Finishing Line Press, 2018).
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