These Few Seeds
Description
Meghan Sterling is co-editor of the anthology, A Dangerous New World:
Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, and Associate Poetry Editor of the Maine
Review. Her work has been published in Rattle, Balancing Act 2, Glass: A
Journal of Poetry, Sky Island Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere.
She has been a Dibner Fellow at the 2020 Black Fly Writer’s Retreat and a
Hewnoaks Artist Colony Resident in 2019 and 2021. Her chapbook, How We
Drift, was published by Blue Lyra Press in 2016. She lives in Portland, Maine,
with her family. These Few Seeds is her debut full-length poetry collection.
Praise for These Few Seeds
Throughout this splendid book, grounded in the intimate joys and trepidations
of new motherhood, there is a broad undercurrent of foreboding about the kind
of world we are bequeathing to our children—a world ravaged by pervasive
environmental degradation, pandemic, and political strife. But Meghan
Sterling knows well Auden’s dictum that “poetry is the clear expression of
mixed emotions.” Her unflinching depiction of the imperiled world that her
daughter will likely inherit is tempered by the abiding lessons of her Jewish
ancestral history, a reverence for the natural world in all its seemingly
unstoppable splendor, and an unquenchable hope that the future is ours to
redeem: “. . . to you I bequeath / all the courage / of birds and flowers, / water
and stones, / to love enough, / to love with the toughness of trees.”
—Richard Foerster