Janet Joyner s varied poems include lyrical descriptions of the natural world and draw deft portraits of people and the complicated connections between us. Waterborne is threaded with vivid images and insights. Sometimes they are splendid, such as fallen leaves in such a mass / it seemed the sky had turned sea/and spilled the sun at our feet ; sometimes wry, as when the wife of God begins by saying, I could have told you it would end / this way, and ends by suggesting that God Give the grasses another chance ; and sometimes tragic, as in her extraordinary poem, What the Egg Knows, showing us the kid hung on a fence post to watch dawn die over Laramie, how he is no different from you or me, like any creature swimming or striding / in search of his bliss. --Ellen Bass, author of Like a Beggar, The Human Line, and Mules of Love

Waterborne

Janet Joyner

Logan House

Collection of poetry set in North and South Carolina. Janet Joyner's fourth collection. No Come Hyacinth spans observation of nature, both human and plant as well as offering social commentary on current issues. In the Piedmont region of North Carolina, wild hyacinth is one of the first signals for the return of spring, and the new growth it signals. In legend, the flower supposedly sprang from a drop of Hyacinthus' blood that fell from his brow when hit by a discus thrown by his lover, the god Apollo. Poets, like Eliott and Whitman, have often used flowers with slender racemes or roots as images of maleness. Janet Joyner's fourth collection, Now Come Hyacinths, celebrates both the resilience of the natural world and natural human connections, but registers possible failure of each. While much of this volume's fauna is distinctly midland, the poet's native low country South Carolina is evident in such poems as The Salt Marsh and Swamp. This is Joyner at the top of her game.

Now Come Hyacinths

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Waterborne

Now Come Hyacinths