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SEED WHEEL

SEED WHEEL

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ISBN: 978-1-7364323-0-3

Pub Date: Sept. 2021

Pages: 96


By Kathryn Hunt


Seed-wheel is a lyric grown from the taut ardent beauty of simple speech, that seeks a way through the broken places in the ground of our imagination. The past and the present abide in these poems, as intimate as breath. Migrations and altars, silence and wonderment, miseries and mysteries, and the stubborn cargo of our collective and personal histories. Here is the testimony of ancestors—and of the land itself—moments outside of time in which the living and the dead dwell in common, listening to the blow of northern wind.


Seed Wheel grows from the austere and ardent beauty of the seasons. Here, the past and the present abide, as intimate as rain, as lucid as a stone. The poems are drenched in silence and wonderment, miseries and mysteries, and the stubborn cargo of our collective and individual histories. In a world steeped in limbic quarrel, these poems testify to the power of language to reach across imposing boundaries, enter the public square, and sing.

    Despite the anguish and homesickness that pervade the poems in this collection, Lyuba Yakimchuk’s keen attention to the humble, the absurd, the everyday, and the sensuous illuminates the entire volume. If sunflowers indeed do end up expatriating former missile sites together with Ukraine’s destroyed cities and poisoned landscapes, doubtless she will be there to ensure we don’t miss it.

    —Elizabeth B. Jones, EuropeNow


    Kathryn Hunt makes her home on the coast of the Salish Sea. Her poems have appeared in The Sun, Radar, Orion, Missouri Review, Carolina Quarterly, and Narrative. Her first collection of poems Long Way Through Ruin was published by Blue Begonia Press. She is the recipient of residencies and awards from Ucross, Artists Trust, and Joya AIR (Spain). She made documentary films for many years. Her film No Place Like Home premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy. She’s worked as a waitress, shipscaler, short-order cook, bookseller, printer, food bank coordinator, filmmaker, and freelance writer.

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