River Country

River Country captures the setting of Tidewater Virginia, all the way to the Bay, with its well-measured, sonorous words. The author, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, was appointed Poet Laureate 2006-2008 for the Commonwealth of Virginia by Governor Timothy M. Kaine. Her poems contain a life list of birds, seen in context, from cardinals fretting at a backyard feeder . . . to the once threatened osprey that 'dives to kill.' Unflinching in her observations and meditations while deeply empathetic with the natural world, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda writes from an awareness of our human, mostly sorry, impact on land, waters, and creatures, even as she sings every shred of life she sees.