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"Growing up in rural, southern Virginia, Hope Whitby planted marigolds in the garden with her mother, canoed the Nottoway River with her father, and waited for the bookmobile on the porch with her sisters Vicky and Kelly. Her debut poetry collection captures with great intimacy and warmth a girlhood immersed in the natural world, and a poet's coming of age. Traveling the River is a book about strong roots, new beginnings, and the timeless redemptive power of art and nature. ""Give my words seed,"" Whitby writes, ""and they will take root."""

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"""As serious as a heart attack, as tender as love's flutters in the chest or a chihuahua's first trembling bath, the vital core of this book is haiku. In Hope Whitby's hands (as Mary Oliver has said in another context), the form is ""a doorway into thanks."" Sometimes an anecdotalist, sometimes a local colorist, Whitby is more often a manifestation of Imagism come again. She can show you a seven-year-old ""peek[ing] around hips"" or can make you breathe in ""the cedar [of Hemingway's] suit coat."" Here's a new poet, a poet on her way to ""a new moon [that] still shines."" Ron Smith, author of The Humility of the Brutes, Poet Laureate of Virginia 2014-2016"

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"Hope Whitby is a poet, fiction writer, and haiku aficionado. She is the creator of Art in the Shop and Books in the Bay book club supporting the local Richmond art scene since 2012. Hope has received awards for her poetry from the Virginia Poetry Society and Richmond magazine. She was born and raised in Emporia, Virginia, and now lives in Richmond with her Chihuahua, Princess. Petersburg, Virginia-based artist Lisa Mistry conceived and created ""Traveling the River,"" the artwork on the cover of this book, especially for Hope's poems. Lisa used lino-carving to create an original block print representing the Nottoway River in Virginia, where Hope visited with her family as a child. Lisa's choice of block printing, evoking European and Asian printmaking traditions, reflects her heritage as well as Hope's passion for Japanese poetry forms. Llewellyn is a recent graduate of the MFA program in Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She also has a BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. This combination of interests and experiences form a strong toolkit for thinking about space, hierarchy, and detail. She loves to solve problems, clarify content, and work with a team. Llewellyn is excited by large format print, environmental design work, collaboration and experimentation with digital tools."

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