![]() ![]() Her words, like spells, conjure the water’s music, the sun’s warmth, the “stories from stones.” River Spells will bring you into an experience of oneness of the natural world, and like any good spell, transform you back into your true nature. She captures the essence of the river’s magic so we can keep it close and dip into it to renew our spirits whenever we need. Meredith Heller does just this in River Spells. In nature, there are magical moments we want to bottle up and take home with us. ![]() Kaplan, Poet Laureate, Alexandria Virginia (2016-2019) ![]() In River Spells Heller takes us to her beloved Yuba River, introducing us to what she sees and experiences in a recitation of musical words that invite our bodies and spirits to dance with her: insects sibilate, stars shimmy, all this life/thrumming/through me, cacophony, gurgles, murmuration, whisper, bubbling, blowing… Delicious words that describe the Yuba River and enchant the reader.Īnd true to her poetry, she asks the important questions that are left humming in our hearts, “ What kind of watermark will you leave?” has an extraordinary facility for describing. Bewitching incantations await in this new collection of poems aptly called River Spells. The River is a fiction addition to the New Landscape writing of Robert Macfarlane and Rebecca Solnit, prose so vivid and engaging that a city-dwelling reviewer can feel the clammy cold of a fog over a river or the heat of subterranean tree roots burning underfoot in the aftermath of a fire. ![]()
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