Rough Cradle - Paperback

by Betsy Sholl (Author)

Betsy Sholl's masterful, musical seventh collection focuses on human dichotomies: body and soul, mystery and knowledge, grief and ecstasy. Though the self is small in relation to death, love is enormous, and no life too small or mean to matter.

Author Biography

Poet, critic, and founding member of Alice James Books, Betsy Sholl is the author of six previous collections of poetry. Recipient of the AWP Prize for Poetry as well as a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is the current Poet Laureate of Maine and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and in the Vermont College MFA program.