Watermarks: Poems from the Coast of Keweenaw
"...a book you will keep on your night stand, the dog-eared pages opening at their own well-worn spots. It is almost a holy book."
Marcelle Doby Williams
Finnish American Reporter
Award-winning poet, Barbara Simila, was born and raised in the Copper Country, the heart of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A series of her poems won the Finnish American Poetry Award and another received an Honorable Mention in the 'Lake Superior Writers' series.
In Watermarks:Poems from the Coast of Keweenaw, Simila provides crystalline images for elemental forces. The style is spare, sensual, and reverential. Regardless of subject, Simila's focus is always the pristine beauty of nature, the dignity of humanity, and above all, love. Her highly accessible and resonant poems are a gift to readers of all cultures.
Janet Kafka
University of Pittsburgh
"...impressive work. Her love for her life and her land come through so beautifully."
Sy Syfransky
Editor, The Sun
"Tight intriguing poems with a fine sense of form and language."
