2007 Cider Press Review Book Award Winner
ABUNDANCE, by Robin Chapman
Ms Chapman receives a publication contract, $1000, and 25 copies of the first print run. Her book will be released February, 2009. Read a poem from Abundance:
BLOODROOT
Who among us knows
as deep in our roots
how ephemeral life is?
Who sheds the winter
as quickly, who in our haste
to bloom thrusts up a face
to the sun, only the sun
and the bees
before we have even unfolded
our hands?
Who praises in our green
open-handedness as gladly
Read Marc Schuster's review of Abundance on the Small Press Reviews blog »
ISBN: 978-1-930781-03-0
Binding: Tradepaper
Pub date: February, 2009
About Robin Chapman
Robin Chapman is author of ten previous poetry collections, including The Way In and Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos, both winners of the Posner Poetry Prize; and The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead, winner of a Wisconsin Library Association’s Outstanding Poetry Book award. A three-time recipient of Wisconsin Arts Board grants, including a Literary Fellowship for 2007, she has collaborated with artists and composers, helped organize the traveling Epidemic Peace Imagery exhibit, and co-edited the anthology On Retirement: 75 Poems. She lives in Madison,Wisconsin, with her husband Will Zarwell.
