$18.99
Lesley Brower’s poems create direct paths to complicated truths, paths that begin and end in the natural world. She celebrates and honors every river and tree, kestrel and crow, firefly and mosquito. She recognizes the past, present, and future of every living thing, including us. In the clearest language, her poems acknowledge that we all share a “single, feathered heartbeat.”
–Don Boes
Seeing is a creative act; seeing, and then saying what is seen in a clear, lyrical voice is poetry. Lesley Brower sees not only the fine details of rural Kentucky life, but looks for what they may suggest about larger truths, perhaps, even , “the blaze of God through the tatter of corn leaves.” Salt Lick Prayer is a fine beginning for a poet.
–Joe Survant
These poems are a fist that punched me in the gut, but they’re also a long-fingered hand that brought me a glass of water and an ibuprofen. […] Lesley Brower’s poems “fluster my grip / on this earth, set me skyward / in a sun-flushed whirl.”
–Tom C. Hunley
Salt Lick Prayer
by Lesley Brower
$18.99, Full-length, paper
978-1-63534-080-8
2017
Lesley Brower is a native Kentuckian. She earned her BA from Western Kentucky University and her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She and her husband live in Southern Illinois, where she gardens, cooks, works for a local church, and teaches English at John A. Logan College. Salt Lick Prayer is her first book.
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