QUIET TREE by DM Frech

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Like others who create art, or such things that a transactional world might dismiss as merely inconsequential, DM Frech ponders in one poem: “why should I care/ to leave nothing”? Quiet Tree leans toward those clearings where even brief lyrics might turn bits of remembered life, loss, and language into the currency of poems.

–Luisa A. Igloria, 20th Poet Laureate of Virginia, Emerita

 

In Frech’s powerful collection Quiet Tree, grief and death take many shapes and memories appear haunted, how to cope in the ever-shifting present that refuses to detach itself from the past?

As the poem notes in “Chains of Flesh”: “Bound to chains of flesh I crawl the earth cast upon seeds of grief for I cannot fly cannot see beyond my shadow am forced to trust you will return over and over to find me not gone,” the conundrum to preserve or to let go seems impossible. How does one exist and make peace with loss and longing, with life as it is? No matter; from the moment we’re thrown in, these poems give it all in their deep and imaginative wonder, in the covered flowers, and coffin cards and gifts made of words.

–Kimberly Engebrigtsen

 

 

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QUIET TREE

by DM Frech

Paper
$19.99
979-8-88838-363-6
2023
In QUIET TREE, DM Frech’s poems are comrades, who share a dark dwelling, with quirky innuendos and retorts to our dilemma of existence. God, often in the mist, with a net to catch our predicaments and keep us from drowning.
DM Frech lived in New York City’s East Village as a modern dancer and attended New York University, Tisch School of the Arts completing a bachelors and master’s in dance. After sixteen years in NYC, moved to Virginia, worked at the Governor’s School of the Arts, got married, had two sons, was a realtor, and embraced fiction at the Muse Writer’s Center in Norfolk. She writes poetry, children’s stories, fiction, non-fiction, looks for shooting stars and hugs trees.

 

7 reviews for QUIET TREE by DM Frech

  1. Mary Anne Waterfield (verified owner) –

    DM Frech writes with heart about complex emotions. Her words are carefully chosen, to evoke the essence of the poem’s message.

  2. Jayne Ormerod –

    Another excellent collection of insightful poems that will make you think and feel. Highly reccommend.

  3. Rachel Plumley (verified owner) –

    Absolutely adore this poetry! It is real, vivid, and relatable.

  4. Lisa Welling (verified owner) –

    Intimate, difficult in subject yet all too familiar in nature. Poems that bring to life the unspoken.

  5. Lisa Welling (verified owner) –

    This book of poems is a whirl of emotions that are familiar yet isolating. Debbie speaks of all the ebbs and flows of life and just how she took on the ripple, the current, the wave and even the crash. The title is an interesting one, a tree is only quiet if you’re not listening.

  6. Olivia Fox –

    “Quiet Tree” is a beautiful, tender work, contemplating death, loss, and hope in Jesus.

  7. Arthur Fox –

    Interesting, as her poetry always is. But made me wonder if she is grieving. I hope not. Good thoughtful book.

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