Description
Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie
by Janet McMillan Rives
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-339-6
2020
Janet McMillan Rives resides in Tucson, Arizona. She was born and raised in Connecticut and spent most of her adult life in Iowa where she retired as professor of economics from the University of Northern Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Lyrical Iowa, Ekphrastic Review, Sandcutters, The Avocet, Unstrung, The Blue Guitar, Fine Lines, and in the anthologies Voices from the Plains, Facing West, Desert Tracks: Poems from the Sonoran Desert, and The Very Edge (forthcoming).
Caryl Sharp (verified owner) –
Into this Sea of Green is a delightful group of poems that for me are a vivid recollection of memories of the prairie. The poems are clearly written that inspires me to read them over and over. A lovely book.
Bonnie Wehle (verified owner) –
Into This Sea of Green: Poems of the Prairie is nothing less than a 25-poem ode to the midwestern grasslands of the title. With these poems, Janet Rives draws word pictures of a part of the country, which if we happened not to appreciate it before reading this book, we certainly do afterwards. It is in turn endearing, poignant and nostalgic. These are love poems to the landscape, creatures, people, history and colors of the American prairie. In beautifully crafted language, we learn, among other things, how the poet arrived and heard its bird call her to stay, what she loved—sharing the country roads with waving boys, and what she mourns—trees and lilac bushes bereft of their farmhouses and families. Beautiful.