Charlottesville poet Lea Marshall in her debut collection, The Slow Hammer of Roots, manages to combine both nature and humanity, according to Jennifer Ackerman, an award-winning science writer.
The high praise continues with Ackerman acknowledging that Marshall’s poems “take my breath away.”
Marshall will read from her collection, published by Broadstone Books, at New Dominion Bookshop on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m.
The poems aim to dissect the past, present and future reaching back to the beginning of grass, exploring Lee’s surrender at Appomattox where her fourth-great grandfather was aide de camp, following a series of future folktales and even hypothesizing totality.
The event is free and open to the public.
Marshall’s writing has appeared in Imagining: A Gibney Journal, The Atlantic and Dance Magazine.
Her poetry has been published in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, Hayden’s Ferry Review, JAMA, Diode, and Rogue Agent, among other journals and anthologies.
New Dominion Bookshop is located at 404 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville.
For more information, visit ndbookshop.com
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Crystal Graham
