Desire Lines

Marie Harris is a poet, anthologist and essayist. She served as New Hampshire Poet Laureate, 1999–2004, and co-produced the first-ever gathering of state poets laureate. She is the author of four books of poetry, including the prose-poem memoir, Your Sun, Manny. Her children’s books include G is for Granite and Primary Numbers, and The Girl Who Heard Colors (winner of the NH Writers Project award for Outstanding Work of Children’s Literature in 2016). She performs, with musical accompaniment, her narrative of the life of Amy Beach, America’s first female composer.

"Like birds perched briefly on trees, the poems in Desire Lines balance stillness and movement, arrival and departure. This is a book of journeying able to hold apparent contradictions. . . . Understated and courageous, these are poems to sustain us." —Kathleen Aguero, After That

"In addition to her poet’s ear, Marie Harris has an artist’s eye for authentic, unadorned detail." (Weasel in the Turkey Pen) —Maxine Kumin, former U.S. Poet Laureate

"This is a complex story of hard-earned successes and brilliantly achieved failures, a story full of humor and wisdom and love." (Your Sun, Manny)             —Erica Funkhouser, Post & Rail

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92 pages, paperback

ISBN: 978-1-939449-20-7

Price: $18.00

Publication Date: October 2019