Split Image Focus (Poetry)
Vendor: Cape Ann Museum Store
By Lila Swift Monell
Monell's poems have a tidal rhythm that pulls the reader deeper into her world, which entwines the joy and necessary cruelties of Nature with the pains and ecstasies of being human. Here is a poet who has communed deeply with plants and animals—wild and not so wild—not as escape, but in search of a greater understanding of herself, and by extension, of those around her. This would be no strange land to Emily Dickinson, and if we look closely enough, it will be no strange land to us.
— JoeAnn Hart, Winner of the PEN New England
Discovery Award in Fiction
Softcover, 100 pages, 5.5 x 0.25 x 8.5". Black & White Images.
Copyright 2004 Lila Swift Monell with Parlez-Moi Press.