Struck Dumb with Singing Jane Greer Beginnings to 1800

Beginnings to 1800

“Jane Greer is one of our most quietly surprising poets

but a prairie creek in May: clear water moving lightly over smooth stones

what does that mean for the way we relate to one another

but faith is never far away

Struck Dumb with Singing Jane Greer Beginnings to 1800Schessers poems are alive with rapture for earthscapes brimming with the divine as she travels in the company of Hopkins and Roethke and Jacques Maritain, working a clutch of words stumbling through a universe in praise of undeviating love. John Balaban, Lamont Prize winner, author of Empires LeighAnna Schessers Struck Dumb With Singing delivers an incantatory, spiritual journey through beautifully rendered pastoral poems: What claw and talon beast of