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She brings the same careful attention in these narrative poems of her inner life as she does to the wide world.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She has brought us fully into her heart, and we are the better for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>\u2014Rodger Kamenetz<\/strong>, author of <i>Seeing into the Life of Things<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Sing with the swinging scythes, the \u201cLa-La\u201d music\/ of the squeezebox, the ronds de jambe; even bullets \u201csing\u201d and crackle the air.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sing with the sonic richness of these lyrics; they will call and respond to every sense in your body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>\u2014Kay Murphy<\/strong>, author of <i>Belief Blues<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In precise and imaginatively crafted poems, Ann Plicque explores geographies both external and internal. <i>New Barrier Islands<\/i> evokes place\u2014southern, tidal, natural, and historical\u2014moving seamlessly between worlds as rich and personal as \u201ccollards or spinach with ham hocks, garlic, sweet-potatoes\u201d to Civil Rights struggles and the Jim Crow era.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The language, like the Mississippi River it evokes, presses \u201cpast heavy bridge pilasters to the Gulf, swift, mysterious, [and] stirs muddy depths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><strong>\u2014Doug Ramspeck<\/strong>, author of <i>Smoke Memories<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/ann-plicque\">Ann Plicque<\/a><br \/>\n9781956921595<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Barrier islands are what protect coastlines from erosion, and are essential to maintain fisheries, as well as land. 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