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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Lung Deep Country

Lung Deep Country

Renfro, Lydia

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1105367703
ISBN13: 9781105367700
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Apr 27 2026
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
From the husk-haunted American Southern Plains to a 'sunshine-lonely' metro entrance in Turkey, Lung Deep Country sings a poetry of landscape and longing. The poet meditates on family and loss, the heaving of one's spirit, the 'great secret our grandmother taught us.' With perfectly observed detail-'the rust-red watering edge' of Oklahoma's Canadian River, 'the elbows of men fighting for space in the crowded ferries' of Istanbul-Lydia Renfro evokes the wrenching power of lovers lost, childhood vanished, heritage claimed and held closely. 'It is a family poem, ' she writes, 'an earth poem...it bristles my heart and sings the wounds there.' Lung Deep Country is a tour de force. These poems of yearning and place catch the heart, choke the throat; they call us to our own memories, entice us to 'pick up the conversation we've left off, ' as the poet says, '-the one started as children in the deep night.' -Rilla Askew, author of Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place

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