Results for "Casey, Helen Marie"

The poems in Mums, the Tongue, and Paradise are beautifully constructed, often ironic, and always mindful of the poetic possibilities of language. Take, as an example, the first in the series, Adagio: "Everywhere the yellow of death grips leaves". This is followed by a line that qualifies the first ... Read More about Mums, the Tongue, and Paradise

The poems in Mums, the Tongue, and Paradise are beautifully constructed, often ironic, and always mindful of the poetic possibilities of language. Take, as an example, the first in the series, Adagio: "Everywhere the yellow of death grips leaves". This is followed by a line that qualifies the first ... Read More about Mums, the Tongue, and Paradise

Literary Nonfiction. Biography. Florence Armes Hosmer was born in 1880. A farmer's daughter, she was determined to succeed as an artist. Acclaimed in the early part of the 20th century, she has fallen almost entirely from view. This lyrical work is the story of how Miss Hosmer, a feisty New England ... Read More about My Dear Girl: The Art of Florence Hosmer

In You Kept Your Secrets about her grandson's suicide at age 18, poet Helen Marie Casey writes, "I am afraid to look, afraid there will be nothing everywhere." But she does look-with love, grief, and beauty-at the measure of his height still on the wall, at the tree where he hanged himself, at the h... Read More about You Kept Your Secrets

In You Kept Your Secrets about her grandson's suicide at age 18, poet Helen Marie Casey writes, "I am afraid to look, afraid there will be nothing everywhere." But she does look-with love, grief, and beauty-at the measure of his height still on the wall, at the tree where he hanged himself, at the h... Read More about You Kept Your Secrets