This short collection of poems considers that necessity and the obstacles in its way: exile, distance, haunting, identity, despair, killing... the list goes on.

In poems as tautly constructed as they are trenchantly observed, Winter, Glossolalia probes the nature

of language to depict the world from which it springs. Paired with humorous, often satirical images,

this collection explores human ingenuity and creativity against the material resources of the given

world, highlighting the possibilities and the limits of artistic making. In that sense, it is both a timely

and enduring book, one that recalls Virgil’s Georgics as readily as it evokes the crisis of anthropogenic

climate change.

Tea in the Nuns’ Library presents a selection of unique journeys; beginnings, detours and arrivals, where pinpointed details and events illuminate the value of experiences. This collection of meditative, lyric poems is always on the move: from the quiet politeness of a garden lunch among roses in England and a puppet performance of Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, to Folsom Prison, the ancient Rocky mountains, and observing a coyote with a platinum tinged coat rummaging through supermarket bins in winter. Through astute observations, Jeanine Stevens reminds us that the remarkable is always around us.

This short collection of poems considers that necessity and the obstacles in its way: exile, distance, haunting, identity, despair, killing... the list goes on.

In poems as tautly constructed as they are trenchantly observed, Winter, Glossolalia probes the nature

of language to depict the world from which it springs. Paired with humorous, often satirical images,

this collection explores human ingenuity and creativity against the material resources of the given

world, highlighting the possibilities and the limits of artistic making. In that sense, it is both a timely

and enduring book, one that recalls Virgil’s Georgics as readily as it evokes the crisis of anthropogenic

climate change.

Tea in the Nuns’ Library presents a selection of unique journeys; beginnings, detours and arrivals, where pinpointed details and events illuminate the value of experiences. This collection of meditative, lyric poems is always on the move: from the quiet politeness of a garden lunch among roses in England and a puppet performance of Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, to Folsom Prison, the ancient Rocky mountains, and observing a coyote with a platinum tinged coat rummaging through supermarket bins in winter. Through astute observations, Jeanine Stevens reminds us that the remarkable is always around us.