A fleeting image in Martha Deed’s poetic memoir, Under the Rock, captures the way the living rush by and miss the dead: the poppy fields of Belgium and France seen as a red blur from a high-
~Bart White, in the next hour (FootHills Publishing)
and co-
“Blessed the woman whose sight connects the dust, the bees/ the skies, the wretched men, the gods.” Such a woman is Martha Deed, and her readers quickly discover where “the bony truth” of the poems lies. In Under the Rock, Deed’s painstaking research not only grounds the poems in fact, but also allows her to seamlessly weave her tightly focused ancestral history with American History at its most sprawling. The lessons learned are as numerous as the poems in
this rich tome.
~Karla Linn Merrifield, Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select)
and Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North (Cirque Press)
Aboard the Adventure
Heaviest fog we have had yet
and as the day advanced
it grew heavier still
We decided to leave the yawl
and seek amusement ashore
Skipper and his mate
put on light trousers
and collars
and fancy ties
We ladies did not like to put on light dresses
on account of the dampness
we wore old skirts
respectable waists
fixed up our hair
so we would be allowed
inside the stores at least
We started on a tramp to Portsmouth
reached there in an hour and a half
Aboard the Adventure, 1911
About the Author
Under the Rock is Martha Deed's second
FootHills Publishing collection. Her first, Climate Change, was released in 2014.
Her poetry has been published in dozens of journals, including Shampoo, Moria, Unlikelystories, CLWN WR, Le Mot Juste, Edifice Wrecked, Big Bridge, and Earth's Daughters. Her work has been included in FootHills anthologies, including Birdsong and Coast to Coast: The Route 20 Anthology as well as anthologies published by Iowa, Mayapple, Red Hen, Xexoxial, Beatlick Press and others.
Under the Rock is a 104 page hand-
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