harvests book
Harvests

By Janet Lembke
Carrollton, Ohio: Press on Scroll Road, 2010. Edition of 54.

8.25 x 12.5"; 52 pages. Printed from handset Cloister Lightface on Frankfort Cream paper in an iron handpress. Includes an illustration by Joe Nutt, the author's brother.

Prospectus: "Janet Lembke writes, gardens, and keeps cats in Staunton, Virginia. Her eighteen books include poetry, literary translations, and collections of essays on the natural world. In 2005, she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to translate Virgil's Georgics, a poem on farming. She is a certified Virginia Master Gardener."

This paean to gardening begins with this: "Plant a garden and you reap an array of surprises." And the last paragraph with this: "The garden brings not only flowers, fruits, and vegetables but also great joy. But the work put into it is not – can never be – sufficient recompense for its gifts. I shall pay the dryad's price for my harvest…."

The calming sense of our greater cycles and truths is the experience of Harvests.
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