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Love Garden at the End of the World
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781968226022
Publisher: Grand River Poetry Press
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Love Garden at the End of the World by Christine Stephens-Krieger is a debut poetry collection steeped in the landscapes of Michigan's dunes, lakes, and gardens-and in the intimate terrain of love, loss, and transformation. Stephens-Krieger's poems traverse childhood and motherhood, sensuality and grief, often with a feminist lens and a fierce embrace of life's contradictions.
Praised by poets Dan Gerber, Patricia Clark, Lee Upton, Neil Kaufman, and Nancy Eimers, the collection blends vivid natural imagery with human vulnerability: violets and clavicles, storms and tenderness, intimacy and independence. From elegies for her father to love poems for her husband, from meditations on the body's changes to the persistence of joy, these poems celebrate both the fleeting and the eternal.
Stephens-Krieger's voice is rooted in place but expansive in reach, carrying readers from quiet Michigan gardens to the vastness of emotional and spiritual landscapes. Love Garden at the End of the World is both an ode to the natural world and an invitation to dwell fully in our own humanity.
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