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Here is homage finely wrought-for the home place, its seasons and people, for nature's inventory of the living and dead-all of it tendered with virtuosity and imaginative grace. -Thomas Lynch, author of Still Life in Milford, The Undertaking -Life Studies from the Dismal Trade and Bodies in Motion and at Rest Do not dismiss this poet in her own country...Michigan, an emotional geography deeply experienced, prized and evoked. Houghteling's poems in her new book, The Blue House, work Zen-like on me with intense, unpredictable simplicity. Like one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, Marla Kay...

These poems chronicle the life of the author's mother (1924-2011) in an attempt to keep her mother from disappearing as dementia removes her from loved ones and memories. The subject, Kathleen Marie Cole Houghteling, grew up in a Michigan village, where her father ran the local bank. She married a local boy, Jack Houghteling, and followed him around the country as he moved from base to base for the U.S. Army during WWII. The deaths of their first daughter, her father, then her mother occured early in her life. The couple had three more daughters. Though the family left their village of...