Wyndmere: Poems

By: Carol Muske-Dukes

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Synopsis: Poems on the power of memory and the shading of past into presentIn this enthralling collection, National Book Award finalist and former Poet Laureate of California Carol Muske-Dukes composes a lyrical autobiography, tracing her family history from the Dakota prairie to her new life as a young mother in Los Angeles. In &“The Separator,&” Muske-Dukes writes of her grandfather, a wheat farmer, winnowing, threshing, planting a future in the deep black soil of Wyndmere, North Dakota. In &“Biglietto d&’Ingresso,&” she recalls a perfect day in Tuscany, spent with her future husband in a town overlooking a wine valley. &“August, Los Angeles, Lullaby&” is a lulling yet harrowing description of the wonder of a mother holding her newborn child—and her own fragility, encountering mortality—as a hummingbird touches the hourglass of the feeder outside the window . . . then is gone.