Keeping in Place, a poetry book by Mary Ricketson

 

 

Finishing Line Press  

Announces the Publication of   

Mary Ricketson's 

Keeping in Place poems of COVID, sheltered in place  

                                                                       Cover photo by Alex Peers 

 

I’d love for you to have a copy of my new poetry chapbook, written while I’ve been at home during the pandemic. I made my way through COVID and the necessary quarantine.  

  

You can order now, until early May, for printing and shipping in July.  I’m spreading the word now because the publisher bases the print run on the number of prepublication orders received. So, please feel free to send this notice to anyone who might be interested.   

  Reviews:  

 In Keeping in Place, Mary Ricketson pays homage to the natural world she loves, securing emotions she treasures.  Her identity flourishes as she longs for the end of Pandemic… 

Shelby Stephenson, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, 2015-2018, author of Slavery and Freedom on Paul’s Hill and More 

 

Mary Ricketson’s Keeping in Place is one of the first of a new generation of poems inspired by the global pandemic of 2020, and it invites the reader to find balance, if not solace… 

Catherine Carter, author of The Memory of Gills, The Swamp Monster at Home, and Larvae of the Nearest Stars, professor of English, Western Carolina University. 

 

Mary Ricketson with her intense love for nature and mountain life has found a way in her book to interweave beautiful images with the seriousness and isolation of the Corona Virus. 

Glenda Barrett, author of When the Sap Rises, and The Beauty of Silence 

 

Keeping in Place is a collection of poems where the speaker, stricken by COVID, turns her focus to nature…Solo, ill, and counting the days since she’s been touched, the speaker still makes the reader chuckle… 

Rosemary R. Royston, author of Splitting the Soil 

 

Mary Ricketson lives in the Appalachian Mountains and maintains a private practice as a mental health counselor.  Her poems often reflect the healing power of nature, surrounding mountains as midwives for her words.  Her published collections are I Hear the River Call My Name, Hanging Dog Creek, Shade and Shelter, Mississippi: The Story of Luke and Marian.     www.maryricketson.com  

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