To the Wren: Collected & New Poems - Jane Mead

Mead's poetry finds beauty in intense and often painful emotions, inviting the idea there is always light and strength within. n nMead ... wrote clean, spare, often elegiac lines--The New York Times n nThis massive collection houses Mead's life's work: seven books spanning twenty-seven years. Follow chronologically through decades and become captivated by heartfelt muses on loss, madness, danger, grief, isolation, and self-identity. Her poems explore spaces we often try to ignore and finds a comfortable middleground.

Mead candidly and openly weaves together pain and joy until it meshes into glimpses of humanity.n n n