Snake in the Parsonage includes the poems for which Jean Janzen received The Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts (selected by a panel of major poets).
Here Janzen shows us life--colored deeply and in irrepressible light. She finds both ecstasy and incompleteness -- while waiting, at the piano and in the halls of the old people's home, lying in the field, shrieking in the cellar, standing at the blackboard. Poems here include:
- New Country
- Anna Reiger at the Blackboard
- Note to Dee
- Snake in the Parsonage
- How They Loved
- Finding the Pearl
- Story of Leave
- The Jewish Bridge
- Cover Me
- Watermelon Pickles
- Country Home
- And more!
For fans of Janzen or poetry in general, reading these will be a rich, rewarding experience.
