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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anita Skeen , Laura B. DeLindPublisher: Michigan State University Press Imprint: Michigan State University Press Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781611864915ISBN 10: 1611864917 Pages: 95 Publication Date: 01 June 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Even the Least of These is full of motion. Anita Skeen's poems and Laura DeLind's illustrations buzz with activity drawn from the natural world, culled through all of the senses. The collection shows that even little overlooked things are chockablock with vibrancy, and life. Poem titles ""On the Move,"" ""Walking Song,"" and ""Turn, Turn, Turn"" evoke gesture and vitality, while DeLind's illustrations echo and volley off Skeen's words with high-contrast shapes, with curlicued lines swirling clockwise and counterclockwise, where clotheslines dance and letters tumble off ladders. The interplay between these two friends and creators takes us on an ever-expansive journey looking at the ordinary."" --Mary McDonnell, visual artist ""A poem restricted to ten lines demands concision, as well as precision. It also requires a narrowing of attention to what is right in front of us: tutelary encounters with chickens or toads, overheard conversations that become meaningful at once, a sudden memory that arises from childhood--moments in the everyday sensorium we often miss and, hence, neglect to cherish. ""There was something there I needed to save,"" as a friend says in the title poem. Even the Least of These is replete with poems to start the morning, slip into a card, or recite over dinner, each small enough to make a lovely dent in an ordinary day."" --Melissa Kwasny, author of Pictograph and Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today ""Some people baked their way through the pandemic. Some hiked. Some Zoomed until their eyes got goggly. Anita Skeen wrote a ten-line poem every day and emailed it to her friend, artist Laura DeLind, who responded by creating linocut prints. Both used that slowed-down, locked-down time for meditation on the wonders of the world around them. The result is Even the Least of These, a gift of deep seeing, of dwelling in nature as part of nature. I love it. I think you will too."" --George Ella Lyon, poet laureate of Kentucky 2015-2016, author of Back to the Light" Author InformationAnita Skeen is professor emerita in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University where she was the founding director of the RCAH Center for Poetry at Michigan State University and the series editor for Wheelbarrow Books. She is the author of six volumes of poetry. Laura B. DeLind is retired from the Department of Anthropology and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. She is the co-author of The Unauthorized Audubon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |