The Collected Poems 1968-2019

The Collected Poems (1968-2019) by Mary Zettelman Greer contains Greer's earliest reflections, beginning in 1968, and reaching to her most current work, more than fifty years of the steady, sensitive, insightful practice of writing. As wife, single mother, teacher, and friend--and always, as an observer of the landscape of her northeastern Ohio home, Greer has written poems that find both truth and ask the hard questions about life in nature, relationships, and God. Reading through the collection from the beginning, the reader finds seeking for purpose, dark nights of doubts, and growing understanding. The more recent works reveal the poet's urgent despair for the environment, a despair made sharper by her profound appreciation for all the things of Earth, a home, the seasons, and one's daily life. The collection documents a lifetime, from earliest reflections to the mature work of an accomplished poet.