Bunchberries: More Poems of Canada

by Karla Linn Merrifield

The language of Karla Linn Merrifield is nearly always phrased in an animated brogue of images and the patterns she sings them in - this time, in Bunchberries, her lingering refrains call forth bountiful roses in the foggy Maritimes and croon bittersweet dirges in the rocky woods of the Algonquin. With near-joyous chants, she also wordpaints the Great Lakes' shores with star-swirled Petoskey stones in her mantra-like song of the Erie-o. There's no doubting Merrifield's continued, yearning love of Canada, which is personified yet again in the charms of her adeptly wrought poems of discernible Canadian place."
~Eve Anthony Hanninen, poet, writer, and editor of The Centrifugal Eye
(Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada)

Includes a portfolio of four-color photographs by the author.

88 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2015

About the author

Karla Linn Merrifield, a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, has had 600+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 12 books to her credit, the newest of which is Bunchberries, More Poems of Canada, a sequel to Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills), which received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. Her newest is Psyche’s Scroll, a book-length poem from The Poetry Box Selects. She is assistant editor and poetry book reviewer for The Centrifugal Eye. Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet Redux, at http://karlalinn.blogspot.com. Google her name to learn more; Tweet @LinnMerrifiel; https://www.facebook.com/karlalinn.me....

Merrifield’s photography has appeared in Outdoor, Sea Stories, The Centrifugal Eye, among many magazines and publications. In fall 200 High Falls Gallery in Rochester, NY, featured her bird photography in a one-woman show, Dawn of Migration and Other Audubon Dreams, and the Everglades National Park Coe Visitor Center presented a dozen of her photographs in its December 2011 exhibition of works by the park’s artists-in-residence. She illustrated William Heyen's limited-edition 2012 The Green Bookcase with 50+ photographs. A second edition of

Reviews

[Karla Merrifield · Rating 5 out of 5]

A perfect complement to my earlier book, Godwit: Poems of Canada. Come travel with me!