{"product_id":"where-i-live-paperback","title":"Where I Live - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePat Underwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist, 2022 Blue Light Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePat Underwood grew up on an Iowa farm, married her high school sweetheart, and together they raised two sons on a country hillside northwest of Colfax, Iowa where the plentiful wildlife inspired many of her poems. After receiving her college degree at the age of 44, she worked in early education and retired in 2017 from her employment with the State of Iowa. Former publications include two poetry chapbooks - \u003cem\u003ePortraits\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press 2017) and \u003cem\u003eGatherings\u003c\/em\u003e (Celestial Light Press 2007). Her play kit \u003cem\u003eThe Last Supper\u003c\/em\u003e (Meriwether Publishing Ltd.; Contemporary Drama Service 1997) travels the nation. Underwood's poems received a 2001 Pushcart Prize Nomination, a 1996 Founder's Award, and a 2002 Founder's Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These poems of quiet contemplation and gentle celebration of life carve their images out of an understated language elegant in its directness and radiant in its clarity. Whether remembering her childhood, commemorating beloved family members, reliving the loss of a husband, or observing the landscape of her rural home, Pat Underwood welcomes us into kinship with \u003cem\u003ewhere she lives\u003c\/em\u003e. Her precise attention to the natural world and her calmly passionate response to her surroundings help to illuminate the caterpillars, wood ducks, cattle, cottonwoods, and characters she reveals to us. Of earthworms, Underwood writes, they \u003cem\u003eresurrect the holy ground\u003c\/em\u003e. The same might be said of these poems. Each one revives in us the very act of seeing.\"- Jeanne Emmons, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Red Canoe\u003c\/em\u003e \"Reading Pat Underwood's \u003cem\u003eWhere I Live\u003c\/em\u003e is like sitting with the poet on a porch swing at her home in the country and letting the beauty of her warmth and tenderness cascade over you in a healing wash. These poems are honest, perceptive, deeply felt, and superbly articulated with crisp imagery that resonates long after you've read them. They deal with the sadness and joy of family, love and nature, even tragedy with the calmest and clearest of hearts. She speaks as if she knows you, as if you and she are friends, as well you will be after venturing deep in the heart of \u003cem\u003ewhere she lives\u003c\/em\u003e. It is well worth the visit.\"- Michael Carey, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Holy Ground\u003c\/em\u003e \"Pat Underwood's voice is one singing out from the fields of Iowa. Embrace her words and listen to the melodies of rural America.\"- Loretta Diane Walker, author of \u003cem\u003eDay Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom\u003c\/em\u003e \"Anyone who's read Pat Underwood's poems knows her clear and lyrical images of rural Iowa life: \u003cem\u003eSnake grass, wild and outstretched\/slithers along the creek bank (Country Road)\u003c\/em\u003e. But the poems in her new book live in the wider world, too, of family and travel, of love and grief, of doubt and acceptance. \u003cem\u003eNot even mosquitoes\u003c\/em\u003e, she says in \u003cem\u003eThe Dinner Party, can spoil\/my sense of being a woman - \/this place of our beautiful selves. Where I Live\u003c\/em\u003e is Pat Underwood at the top of her game - a beautiful, lyric book.\"- Keith Ratzlaff, author of \u003cem\u003eWho's Asking?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351114498297,"sku":"9781421835242","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YjRScDEwRit0YkZwQUh4M0xsRGlmZz09.webp?v=1769795224","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/where-i-live-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}