Cold Comfort
ISBN: 9780822978978
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

In a series of poems about several Walker Evans photographs, including one of the West Virginia graveyard in which Anderson's grandparents are buried, the poet writes: ``I see/ how beautiful this is even though everyone was poor/ but in Rowlesburg nothing's changed.'' The immutability of that corner of small-town America, where landscape and climate dictate the conditions of life, is Anderson's subject and the substance of her vision. There is a warm sepia tone to her poetry: this is country where the raucous vibrancy of modernity is not admitted. A somewhat monotonous sequence of poems about the dreams of vegetables also suggests torpor. Generally, these poems concentrate on the value of simple thingscountry wisdom, the comfort of home, the pleasing surfaces of rural scenes and seasons. (October) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Maggie Anderson is the author of several poetry collections including, Years That Answer, Windfall, and A Space Filled with Moving . She is the editor of Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems of Louise McNeill , and co-editor of A Gathering of Poets , and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School . Anderson has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches creative writing at Kent State University where she directs the Wick Poetry Program and edits the Wick Poetry Series through the Kent State University Press.

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