Nonfiction

The Dream of the Marsh Wren

Writing as Reciprocal Creation
“When a poet spills her secrets, that’s a special gift.” —KIRKUS

An award-winning poet, a mother, a lover of the land and every creature in it, as well as a student of zoology, Pattiann Rogers is at home in the vocabulary of nature. In this work of prose punctuated and intensified by poetry, Rogers describes the genesis of her most admired verse and reveals how and why she writes.