Goodbye Oyster Girls

<p>.</p><p>Melanie McClellan-Hartnett’s first collection of poetry is grounded in her love and respect for the South Carolina low-country land and people she so fiercely protects and honors.</p><p> </p><p><em>“Goodbye Oyster Girls reflects the poet’s battles and loves her hopes for a fairer South and her observations of nature and people. Part mermaidish Ophelia … part wood nymph … Melanie McClellan-Hartnett puts her worlds of imagination and reality into her wise art.”</em></p><p> – Aida Rogers <em>South Carolina Writers and the Places They Love volumes I - III</em></p>