PAM BERNARD, a poet, painter, editor, and adjunct professor, received her MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College and BA from Harvard University. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and a MacDowell Fellowship. Ms. Bernard lives in Walpole, New Hampshire, and teaches at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and Franklin Pierce University.
"In the early 1900's, traveling from Kansas to California, across
prairie and plains, desert and mountains, Esther's journey is an
odyssey of the spirit, a journey toward self-knowledge and
survival. In this brilliant novel in verse, Pam Bernard perfectly
blends poetic language, imagination, and research to create a work
of stunning achievement, where each character is drawn spare and
sharp, each event becomes metaphor. Yet the landscape is perhaps
the strongest character of all--save Esther herself, whose strength
in the face of abuse, grief, and loneliness will leave an indelible
mark on your own spirit."--Patricia Fargnoli, author of Winter
Family is destiny in Pam Bernard s brilliantly accomplished verse
novel. Westward settlement in the early years of the twentieth
century, rendered in lush and startling detail, is yoked to the
brokenness at the core of Esther s family. In verse as finely
attuned to the measure of the line as it is to layers of meaning,
Bernard makes manifest a time, a place, and a woman, and sheds new
light on the darkness that gets handed down from one generation to
the next. Esther is a wrenching and exhilarating experience: no
reader will remain unchanged. Jennifer Barber, author of Given
Away"
In the early 1900 s, traveling from Kansas to California, across
prairie and plains, desert and mountains, Esther s journey is an
odyssey of the spirit, a journey toward self-knowledge and
survival. In this brilliant novel in verse, Pam Bernard perfectly
blends poetic language, imagination, and research to create a work
of stunning achievement, where each character is drawn spare and
sharp, each event becomes metaphor. Yet the landscape is perhaps
the strongest character of all save Esther herself, whose strength
in the face of abuse, grief, and loneliness will leave an indelible
mark on your own spirit. Patricia Fargnoli, author of Winter"
"Family is destiny in Pam Bernard's brilliantly accomplished verse
novel. Westward settlement in the early years of the twentieth
century, rendered in lush and startling detail, is yoked to the
brokenness at the core of Esther's family. In verse as finely
attuned to the measure of the line as it is to layers of meaning,
Bernard makes manifest a time, a place, and a woman, and sheds new
light on the darkness that gets handed down from one generation to
the next. Esther is a wrenching and exhilarating experience: no
reader will remain unchanged."--Jennifer Barber, author of Given
Away
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