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In the Tilling, poetry by Donna Isaac, revels in the bounties of earth and sea, the culinary arts, past and present living. Isaac transports her readers into realms of childhood, landscapes north and south, reflecting on family, food, and modern challenges. Remembering, musing, and, at times, amusing, the writer has crafted a contemplative collection rich with imagery and lyricism.

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Donna Isaac's new collection of poems takes us along on a journey to her childhood. Liberally laced with food she grew to love from avocados to blue crab to artichokes, the book is a literal feast (yes, recipes are included!) that takes the reader back to their own roots. Each poem is like a slice of freshly baked pie, evoking time, place, and people of luscious newness. This is a book to dip into and savor-an afternoon treat that enchants you. It's a treat that beckons you back for another and yet another taste-tart, sweet, and deeply satisfying. -Stanley Kusonoki, author of Shelter in Place, Items in the News ""The soul can be fertile like loam,"" Donna Isaac writes in In the Tilling. The book retraces a childhood in the South in poems so deliciously detailed you can taste the fresh-caught crab and hear the football games. Fear of leaping into a swimming hole resonates with a fear of leaping into young adulthood. Amidst loved ones' aging, her own aging, and the breath of a Minnesota winter, readers will also hear a ""red-tailed hawk rising like a song"" and see ""incarnadine sumac aflame on the edge of the road."" -Janna Knittel, author of Real Work, finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Award In the Tilling is a powerful collection, a delight to read-lush, with an upbeat voice, curious, observant of the world of foods, plants, and the life of ancestors, childhood, friends. The book is very lyrical, fluid, wonderfully clear and written with great liveliness. -Margaret Hasse, author of The Call of Glacier Park, Summoned and five other books of poetry

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: Donna Isaac earned English degrees from James Madison University, Virginia; the University of Minnesota; and Hamline University in 2007 where she was awarded Best Poetry Thesis for her capstone, Sustenance. She taught junior high, high school, and college English and writing in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, retiring from full-time work after 40 years. In 2009, Red Dragonfly Press published her chapbook, Tommy. In 2012 she was the first writer to be published with Red Bird Chapbooks with her chapbook Holy Comforter and a broadside ""Bathing."" She helped start the literary group Cracked Walnut and serves on the Board for this branch of the League of Minnesota Poets, organizing community readings and free workshops. Pocahontas Press from Virginia published her first full collection of poetry, Footfalls. She helped found the reading series, Literary Bridges, hosting/curating at Next Chapter Booksellers in St. Paul. She has taught at the Loft; North Suburban Arts; and through Cracked Walnut and Penned Poets. In 2019, Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Persistence of Vision. Her work appears in various journals including the Penn Review, The Saint Paul Almanac, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, and others. Her new collection of poetry In the Tilling is from Finishing Line Press.

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