Unearthing Ida New Release author of In The Event

author of In The Event of Full Disclosure

Ruth Goring

the asking & listening

In Christina Seymour’s splendid

” generously offering up the whole way harshly rich images that are as “strong as the soil that welds your sweat to plows/ year in and year out

Unearthing Ida New Release author of In The EventLike compelling fiction, the poems in Unearthing Ida use multiple perspectives to meticulously reveal the title character. And like the best biography, they illuminate the social and cultural world of her time. Rose Smith brings Idas life slowly into focus as one poem after another exhumes the rest of the story and expands beyond a quiet womans journey into a place of insight and compassion. As I immersed myself in the lyrical voices offering their