Christmas in Bethlehem

by Dana Wildsmith

Overview

This new collection by SIBA nominee and GAYA winner Dana Wildsmith brings the reader back once more to Wildsmith's family farm in Bethlehem, Georgia, a farm introduced through Wildsmith's earlier poetry collection, One Good Hand, and her environmental memoir, Back to Abnormal. There is a poem for each day of advent in this book, beginning with poems set in the biblical Bethlehem, and then moving in time and place to Wildsmith's Christmases in Bethlehem, Georgia. The book is appropriately rounded out by the musical score based on one of the poems in the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938853524
Publisher:	FutureCycle Press
Publication date:	09/08/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	46
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.10(d)

About the Author

Dana Wildsmith's environmental memoir about the 1800's farm where she lives with her family, Back to Abnormal: Surviving With An Old Farm in the New South, was Finalist for Georgia Author of the Year in Essay. She is the author of four collections of poetry and has recently completed a novel. Wildsmith has served as Artist-in-Residence for Grand Canyon National Park, as Writer-in-Residence for the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska, and is a Fellow of the Hanbidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences. Wildsmith teaches English Literacy through Lanier Technical College.