Torch the Empty Fields - Mary Jo Lobello Jerome

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Résumé :
Torch the Empty Fields reveals the voices of mothers, daughters, friends, partners, and even the earth Herself. Examining personal and social loss and celebrating survival, these are wry and graceful poems of witness and new beginnings, a reflective collection inspired by Virgil's poem of nature and the land, The Georgics. When you torch the fields, the new growth is lush; the narrative poems in this deft work explore our burning struggles and the wonders of life.

Biographie:
Mary Jo LoBello Jerome, poet, editor, freelance writer, and teacher, is a Pennsylvania Poet Laureate from Bucks County. She edited Fire Up the Poems, an anthology of creative writing prompts for teachers (2021) and is currently a poetry co-editor of Schuylkill Valley Journal. Mary Jo's writing has been published widely. She has lived and taught in her native New Jersey, Rotterdam, and Tokyo and has settled in southeastern PA with her husband.