For Purchase

Washing the Stones

Ibbetson Street Press, August 2007
25 School Street
Somerville, MA 02143

also available at:

Grolier’s Poetry Bookstore
Cambridge, Massachusetts

$10.00

$3.00 Shipping and handling

About Washing the Stones

“I am very moved by Linda Larson’s poems. They are about gliding gulls and young love, and a homeless woman up against a tree—all the stuff of life, straight from the heart.” –Howard Zinn

“Linda Larson’s poetry is powerful and beautiful. Jack Spicer, a unique and wonderful poet in his own right, said that, “Poets are the dictation machines of the Gods.” Linda Larson’s work proves that statement. –Marc Goldfinger

“These beautiful poems appreciate the freedom of birds, gliding in a visible but unreachable sky. They sympathize with the old, the homeless, the ill, and those for whom everyone and everything is gone. Their language is clear and musical, celebrating friendship and mourning losses. In many poems the adult writer is back in Mississippi, seeing how the landscape of her childhood comforts and haunts her adult years. She writes: “Into a world of dreams where it is always summertime and no one is a stranger, and sadness can be chased away by counting stars.”—Miriam Goodman