The Overgrown Copse & Other Poems

In the gorgeously honest, passionate and vivid poems of The Overgrown Copse, Jane D'Arista records her lifelong search for an Eden, a home--however temporary--and the mixed blessings that come with that search. Though she fully acknowledges the world's "defacings" in these poems, there are also moments of exquisite joy--not Marianne Moore s "lowly thing" called satisfaction, but joy. Here, we meet with a woman who has lived life to the hilt and has savored all it has to offer, from European and New World groves of love and completion to moments of terrible grief and loss. Illustrated richly by the poet's artist husband, Robert D'Arista, The Overgrown Copse gives us as its final word a sense that the world is full of songs pointing back "to whatever it is / we call home."