Effie Cromer Nelson was born in 1861 and died in 1971. During the century of her life, she lived beyond her times. She graduated from college, had a long career as a school teacher and in her retirement years took up poetry and painting. This book shares some of her works with you, as well as personal glimpses into her life and the lives of women she inspired.
Effie Cromer Nelson was born in 1861 and died in 1971. During the century of her life, she lived beyond her times. She graduated from college, had a l...
Molly and her mother traveled to Yellowstone on an extended vacation. While there, Molly fell in love with a handsome park ranger, Bryce. But there was turmoil in Yellowstone, and things were not as they appeared. Bears killed many tourists, which forced the park to close.
A Native American, Dakota, befriended Molly. He had knowledge about ancient legends, and he told her about some that sounded like tall tales until they surged to life from beneath the crust.
When Molly stumbled upon an ancient cavern filled with Native American drawings, she and her friends began to unravel the...
Molly and her mother traveled to Yellowstone on an extended vacation. While there, Molly fell in love with a handsome park ranger, Bryce. But there...
In Patricia Nelson’s poems, language is a vessel—sometimes a jeweled container to catch the ineffable, to harness or restrain its power like a djinni; sometimes a boat on the vast sea–surface, catching the winds of exhilarated flight or foundering in storms. This is the vessel with which the poet sets out, and we, her readers, are along for the journey. Through ancient Celtic forests, Dante’s landscape of the damned, and the garden of wordless, singing light from which our consciousness exiles us, Nelson’s poems offer a riddling map home—a way to reach...
In Patricia Nelson’s poems, language is a vessel—sometimes a jeweled container to catch the ineffable, to harness or restrain its power...
