Reading Wind

<h2><span style=color: rgba(0 115 136 1)>Third Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2023</span></h2><p><em>Reading Wind</em> is a beautiful tribute to a father written in a daughter's favorite language-poetry. These poems celebrate the life of the author's father-a rural physician accomplished musician and man who was one with the earth-and take the reader on an imagery-rich journey of mourning and healing.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>From the moment we enter Barrett's <em>Reading Wind</em> we are stunned into awareness of the beauty and fragility of the human and natural world.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>-Judith H. Montgomery author of <em>Passion </em>(Oregon Book Award for Poetry)</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-right><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In these amazing poems is an opportunity to drink into our souls the words of love for a life well lived.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>-William Ellis Ph.D. Professor of Literature and Howard Payne University President (retired)</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-right><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>Reading Wind</em> immerses readers in a delightful nexus of botany biography medicine and memory.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>- Annemarie E. Hamlin Ph.D. VP for Academic Affairs Central Oregon Community College</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-right><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Barrett's poems are <em>pages of music</em> passing on to us a profound medicine of <em>leaf bird heart song</em>.</p><p>-Thomas R. Smith author of <em>Medicine Year</em></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-right><em> </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify>This is a work of discernible unity and personal truth a journey the reader may begin gladly and finish with a sense of renewal.</p><p>-Diane Allerdyce Professor of Humanities and author of <em>Whatever It Is I Was Giving Up</em></p><p><br></p>