Poetry. "Embodies in the poems of Jeanne Larsen's WHY WE MAKE GARDENS are plantings profuse and varied, actual and metaphoric—alive with 'the passions of making / the passion of being / unmade.' Gardens, in her sure hands, are vibrantly real—'dust-purple / asters, the monkshood's last / campanile / orange suns of bittersweet'—and illustrative of our human condition. Each poem is acute, oblique, precise and complex; hers is an art to wonder at, to savor, to praise."—Carol Moldaw

Author City: Roanoke, VA USA

Jeanne Larsen's first book, James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, won the AWP annual competition in poetry. She has also published three novels (Silk Road, Bronze Mirror and Manchu Palaces) and two volumes of translations, most recently Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women's Poems from Tang China (BOA editions). She lives in southwest Virginia and is presently the Susan Gager Jackson Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University.

Reviews and Other Links
author site
Renee Emerson @ NewPages
Sarah Sarai @ The Rumpus
M. Moro-Huber @ NYQ Reviews