The Edge of the Continent: The Forest

by Jacqueline Suskin

This is a book about California. Specifically, this first volume is about Northern California, the wet part of the state, the green part, a place where redwoods reign and fog is common. From 2009-2013, Jacqueline Suskin lived in Humboldt County, on the edge of the continent, writing poetry. In this collection, we come to know her as a lover of land, a steward, and an ecstatic earth worshiper. This book is a personal narrative, a selection of formative memories, but most importantly it’s a shared compendium of terrain, an atlas of verse that offers each reader a retreat, and a pathway to access this sacred landscape that provides us with so much.

Genres: Poetry

94 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Noelle Bakken · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m on a quest to try to read and understand more poetry, which I began with reading Mary Oliver a couple of years ago. These poems brought me right back to sights, sounds, and smells of the foggy woods of Northern California and I can’t wait to bring this collection with me the next time I visit.