Chapbook published in 2000 by Every Other Thursday Press. Photo of stone by Alex Brown. Cover and book design by Anton Marc. Available from the author.
From the back cover: This first solo chapbook follows the seasonal round of the year, exploring possibilities of landscape: comfort, cautionary tale, wide-angle view, redemption.
Praise from John Hildebidle for Blue Heron Stone: These are quiet, contemplative, attentive, spoken poems. At one point in his journal, Thoreau wonders, “Why should just these sights & sounds accompany our life?” What he realized, again and again, is that by looking attentively at small trivial things–a rock, a bird, a pond or stream–the largest perspectives can be attained. Or, as Polly Brown puts it, by paying attention even to the immediate neighborhood, you can understand more fully “how wide the world can be.”
Polly Brown / Poet 