FARMER'S DAUGHTER, THE
By (Author) Lynnell Edwards
Red Hen Press
Red Hen Press
1st August 2003
United States
Paperback
64
Width 139mm, Height 215mm, Spine 5mm
113g
As a writer of drama and short fiction, Edwards' first collection of poetry is influenced by the character sketches of her earlier prose works, while maintaining a strong sense of lyricism. Like her influences, Sharon Olds, Rainer Rilke, and Sylvia Plath, Edwards' poetry derives force from its candor and observational simplicity. A Kentucky native,