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Seed to Bone by Marian Willmott is a collection of poetry reflecting on a life in its final decades. Time and memory laced with metaphor bring moments alive as the poems address family, aging, illness, intimacy, and a deep knowledge of the natural world. Metaphysical questions are interwoven with the natural world addressing the mystery we are a part of and deepening the encounter. The book is a collection of contemplative poems written over the past twenty years, inspired by the solitude of the mountains in Vermont where the author lives and her time spent by the ocean in summers. Her writing is also informed by her experience as a visual artist, primarily a painter, a mother of three and a 60-year marriage. The book is divided into four sections. The first, Time Moves, begins in childhood and focuses on various aspects of family over time. Hold Deep addresses pivotal experiences, including time in the natural world and experiences rooted in such things as music and dreams. In a Minor Key addresses illness and loss. The last section, Echo of Myself, addresses aging and metaphysical questions. The poem River Rushes explains, ""I write to listen, to feel its power in my bones, to feel what I cannot know.""

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Beautiful and haunting in its sincerity, Seed to Bone moves with a seasoned hand, revealing the quiet magic behind artist Marian Willmott's life. Each line rings with a confessional truth: themes of love, nature, time, reticence and loss are refracted into tiny talismans we can hold and admire, as though given a rare glimpse at the extraordinary treasures tucked away in one poet's drawer. Deeply moving... Tyler Enfield. author of Like Rum-Drunk Angels: Winner of the 2021 Spur Award and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Prize; Madder Carmine: Winner of the 2016 High Plains Book Award Marian's poems land light on their feet and deep in the heart. Her juxtapositions of time and memory, laced with metaphors that bring the moments alive, are a pleasure to read and reckon with. As a visual artist, her poems often reflect a painterly quality, with colors and values carefully balanced as she engages family, aging, illness, intimacy, and a deep knowledge of the natural world. Patricia Fontaine, editor of Healing Art & Writing, Using Creativity to Meet Illness.

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Marian Willmott is a writer and visual artist, enjoying both the solitude of the Vermont mountains and a vital artistic community. She received a BA in painting and psychology and an MFA in painting. Writing and art have both been an integral part of her life since childhood. She raised a family and taught art part time in the public schools, always finding time to walk in the woods and focus on her own creative work. She strives to stay present to the mystery we are a part of and deepen the encounter.

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