Questions About Home

Questions About Home includes new poems and some of Cynthias previously published poems such as her Pushcart Prize-nominated Come Morning (published in Pirenes Fountain and First Water: Best of Pirenes Fountain) Maine Orion (published in Harbor Journal) and her poem from Yankee When Even the Inanimate Seems to Rise and Fall with Breath.Central to the themes that thread through these poems are life in rural Maine relationships with family and nature as well as poems after or honoring other writers including Maines current Poet Laureate Wesley McNair (with Poet Laureate) former Maine Poet Laureate Baron Wormser (with Stolen Pears) and poet Tom Hennen (with These Perfect Days).This collection is really a love poem to Maine. And as with any object of love or desire Cynthia Brackett-Vincent fleshes it out with an astute poetic flourish of close detail an intimate and intuitive grasp of nature and as a veteran of life with well-earned insight.-Doug Holder founder of Ibbetson Street Press and Professor of Creative Writing at Endicott CollegeWhat a delight to enter the world of Cynthia Brackett-Vincents Questions About Home and to discover a clarity and crisp delight like fresh snow in first light or a globe of ice making jewel of dry seed. The surprise of words well-chosen selected with love and precision here takes on the natural history of our landscapes and the every day the extremities of our lives and loves. This is a volume to be read and re-read experiencing how common life can be cherished and preserved by language.-Carol Hamilton former Poet Laureate of OklahomaThe silver thread of the sacred runs through these poems; under Cynthias loving eye and luminous pen the Maine woods are cathedral and above the constellations whirl in profound and holy silence. The poets gratitude and humility draw the reader into fellowship with all the other hungry animals on the road; these poems fit beautifully into a unity which expresses the ultimate unity of all living things-in the poets world the grasses will genuflect. It is a world you will want to linger in.-Nancy A. Henry author of Our Lady of Lets All Sing and Who You Are (Sheltering Pines Press).