The Keeping by Linda Neal Reising

$19.99

 

What strikes one first about The Keeping is Linda Neal Reising’s proficiency at writing portrait poems with evocative details bringing character alive. It’s like a short story writer putting together a sequential series that becomes a novel of place. Her images are so vibrant we believe her pen is a painter’s brush.

–Norbert Krapf, Indiana Poet Laureate 2008-2010, author of Indiana Hill Country Poems

 

In her powerful book, The Keeping, Linda Neal Reising honors the resilience of the people she grew up with—women and men of Cherokee, Shawnee, and Wyandotte descent that inhabit Oklahoma’s hard scrabble farms and isolated Route 66 towns. She pays homage, as well, to those outside the human realm, to the tenacious spirit of hunted coyotes and wind-torn catalpa; land-locked crawdads and covered springs. These are poems of witness, deeply observant and empathetic, with potent images that spark “like flint against stone.”

–Shari Wagner, Indiana Poet Laureate 2016-2017, author of The Farm Wife’s Almanac

 

 

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The Keeping

by Linda Neal Reising

$19.99, Full-length, paper

978-1-64662-271-9

2020

Distinguished Favorite – Indenpendent Press Award

WINNER: Gold Medal for the 2021 Human Relations Indie Book Awards in the category of Realistic Poetry Human Relations Indie Book!

Linda Neal Reising, a native of Oklahoma and a member of the Western Cherokee Nation, graduated from Northeastern Oklahoma A & M College and Missouri Southern State University. She also holds an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Evansville. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (Harper/Collins) and And Know This Place: Poetry of Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Press). She was named the winner of the 2012 Writers Digest Poetry Competition. Her chapbook, Re-Writing Family History (Finishing Line Press), was a finalist for the 2015 Oklahoma Book Award, as well as winner of the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Poetry Book Prize. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library.

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