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Though she knows that fire rages / in a nation’s soul as surely as in its forests, Cindy Ellen Hill has the soul of a Druid in love with the wild world and the full-blown beauty of “ordinary days.” That love is as strong as the rowan tree she admires and embraces all of God’s creation in this series of gorgeous sonnets, which are as explosive in content as they are formal in structure. Wild Earth is a passionate book that bepeaks the best of which humanity is capable. Early readers of the book have been enthusiastic. Dan Close writes this: “Cindy Ellen Hill, a brave new voice in contemporary poetry, has successfully combined the elegance and style of the classic sonnet with the themes and freshness of our contemporary natures. In doing so, she has written a wonderful book, worthy of national attention. Pick up a copy of this eloquent volume of twenty-six songs and listen to her sing of twilight, while the gold descends through amber, salmon, purple, ebony. . . Read each of these sonnets and revel in the thoughts they bring. David Weinstock adds: “Cindy Ellen Hill’s new book of poems, Wild Earth, explains why poets have been writing sonnets for over 800 years. For Hill, a sonnet, which she uses in a dozen variants, inspires and demands fresh ways to sing aloud of love, nature, humanity and divinity, and of vivid characters, from the poet herself to the cranky neighbor next door, from God and the gods to the endangered wild Earth
Cindy Hill is an environmental attorney, writer, musician, and obsessed gardener living in Middlebury, Vermont. Her poetry has appeared in many publications and on National Public Radio. Composing music developed her appreciation of rhyme and meter, and she now writes primarily formal poetry, particularly sonnets.
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