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The Land of Milk and Honey "These poems have the matter-of-fact surface and lyrical center that I associate with Mary Oliver. Plain statements, everyday situation, ordinary American lives, yet suddenly with a last image, or a final line of great beauty and transcendence, and you realize that you are in the presence of a poet. Like Oliver's these poems have that weird, exhilarating combination of clarity of statement, story, or situation, with depth of feeling that reveals the mystery beneath the everyday. I mean, I know and can tell you that we are creatures of generation and time, but Getty is able to make you feel that assertion in your guts through image and story, and understand it in a new, fresh, absorbing way. I hope this poet gains an audience." - The Virginia Quarterly Review
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Read poems from The Land of Milk and Honey Read other poems by Sarah Getty "Sarah Getty tells us in vivid, sensuous detail how it was in the Illinois of her childhood, where corn fields were "our forest, our ocean." Her sense of family history illuminates the title poem and makes radiant the role of women over more than a century of physical and metaphysical voyaging. Here, poignantly, are "mortals, telling their stories."" - Maxine Kumin
"Sarah Getty treats well subjects many of her contemporaries treat clumsily: the uncanny love between mothers and daughters; the complexities of feminine comradeship; the fierce beauty women find in nature, the body, and sex. A poet capable of disabused affirmation, Getty writes: "We've come, I believe, into that land of milk and honey that pilgrims are vouchsafed in the wilderness." Readers are likely to experience a similar sense of arrival, coming to the fertile landscape of this book, informed by myths of various degree and fully infected by the love of language." - George Bradley
"It's extraordinary in The Land of Milk and Honey how fully Sarah Getty re-imagines a prairie girlhood we thought we understood, an American landscape we thought we recobnized, the ineffable tangles between female generations. With a sure hand, she builds a poetry which, quite unexpectedly, breaks from plain imager and speech into narrative music of transfiguring, almost visionary, beauty. This is a wonderful collection." - Honor Moore
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