Meanderlines
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Wendy McVicker's Meanderlines considers water, necessary for survival and everywhere endangered, as both a physical and a metaphorical element. Manifesting as rain, as rivers, or as creeks, lakes, and oceans, water, with its always-shifting borders, flows, surges, drowns, and sustains; water shapes landscapes and ourselves. Here, the lyrical, narrative, and often meditative poems explore questions of change, resilience, and loss. As powerful ecopoetry, this collection leaves one with a sense of reverence and awe, more attuned to the many ways we change and are changed by the landscapes in which we live.
Wendy McVicker
Wendy McVicker, 2020-2022 poet laureate of Athens, Ohio, is a longtime Ohio Arts Council teaching artist. Her previous books include Alone in the Burning (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024), Stronger When We Touch, a collaboration with poet Cathy Cultice Lentes (The Orchard Street Press, 2023), Zero, a Door (The Orchard Street Press, 2021), the self-published collaboration with visual artist John McVicker Sliced Dark (2019), and the dancer's notes (Finishing Line Press, 2015). She loves collaborating with artists in many media and performs with instrumentalist Emily Prince under the name "another language altogether" whenever she gets the chance. Her children having grown and flown, she lives surrounded by the green hills of southeastern Ohio with her husband and a Hemingway cat named Dora.
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