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Moving between songful expressions of mourning, solace, delight, and play, poems in Stonechat span themes of family, grief, joy, beauty, human nature, the natural world, love, parenting, and discovery. Within these pages Jacobsen explores, sometimes in form and sometimes in invented form, how the world appears, how we live in the world, and how she responds to the world, whether in relationship to others, to nature, or to the imaginative musings of the creative spirit.

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"""Stonechat is a remarkable book, fluent, fluid, formal, and fresh. Deeply connected to family and a New England landscape she knows intimately, Mary Elder Jacobsen carefully shapes each poem to its subject, the poems soaring with an easy, unforced lyricism."" -Elizabeth Spires, author of A Memory of the Future ""In poem after poem....Jacobsen delights her reader with a vision..."" -Jody Gladding, author of I entered without words ""...Jacobsen maintains an Edenic wonder at the natural world with a verbal music that flows with internal rhymes, alliteration, and cascading lyrical lines."" -Chard deNiord, Poet Laureate of Vermont (2015-2019) ""Jacobsen makes the everyday shimmer with life..."" -James Crews, author of Unlocking the Heart: Writing for Mindfulness, Creativity, and Self-Compassion"

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"Mary Elder Jacobsen was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. She holds a BA with honors in art from Goucher College, an MA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she was a teaching fellow, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems have appeared in various literary journals and have been selected for anthologies, radio, Poetry Daily, and other distinctions. A recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency, she lives in North Calais, Vermont. ""Stonechat"" is her debut poetry collection."

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