Wild Apples:  Stories From the Motherland
by Patricia Celley Groth

Palanquin Press of the University of South Carolina Aiken has just published Dodge Poet Patricia Celley Groth's Wild Apples:  Stories From the Motherline.

"This is a chronicle of an America just past, but also of its family and kinship values that will never expire.  A little girl grows up with the experiences of large, hard times, which nonetheless contain their precious pleasures.  There are epiphanies of unexpected love, of lessons in summoning strength, and ones of sudden betrayal by the adult world.  ... " 
John L. Falk

Pat's "... genealogical poems ... reach back as far as the records show.  Her poems are full of untraditional mothers and eccentric family members, moon goddesses, myths, and vivid, sometimes bitter, reality. ... "  Maxine Kumin

Palanquin Press
University of South Carolina-Aiken
471 University Drive, Aiken, SC 29801
ISBN 1-891508-16-4    $15 (paper)
Available at www.amazon.com

The Gods' Eyes: 
Stories From the Father Line 
by Patricia Celley Groth

"The Gods' Eyes is a book of extraordinary charm, truth and quiet power."
                      Alicia Ostriker

The poems in The Gods' Eyes combine a gentle lyricism with a forceful narrative energy.  Groth's vivid and inviting recollections of childhood and family, so carefully shaped, are like sepia photographs brought to life."
                      Jo Eldridge Carney

Also by Patricia Celley Groth:
Before The Beginning