Cicada. New and Selected Poems (en Inglés) - Shirley Rickett

About the Author

Shirley Wilson-Rickett has been published in over thirty journals, magazines, and anthologies the fifty-three years she has been writing and publishing. She lives and writes in Kansas City, Missouri with husband Charles and their rescue dog, AllieMo.

About the Book

In this collection of poems spanning years dedicated to honing her art, Shirley Rickett lays out in delicate yet tensile lyrics a path to follow for the questioning soul. Her gifts shine through in poems as diverse as an elegy for her son or a lyrical study of Vincent Van Gogh. Poems of family, nature and art reveal a spiritual yearning beyond the ordinary, an understanding that the deep questions we hold can be answered in many different ways: "All the names of God/I know lie beneath my pillow."

- Catherine Anderson, author of My Brother Speaks in Dreams: Of Family, Beauty & Belonging