What Is Birthed to the Earth Travels Far

What Is Birthed to the Earth Travels Far is a journal-like exploration of nature's curative magic. It celebrates the delights of daily life while illuminating the sadness of loss and the remarkable buoyancy of recovery. These poems span McClung's miscarriages the birth of her son and her initiation into motherhood.The colors and textures in this collection are suffused with the energy of the Pacific Northwest and the Sonoran Desert-landscapes as distinct as they are evocative. Emerging from those disparate landscapes McClung's poems take the reader on an awareness-shifting journey over unexpected terrain. Throughout her irrepressible optimism reveals a reverence for the natural world and its remarkable ability to comfort and heal.