The domestic poems of Fay Inchfawn, in a special illustrated TNH edition eBook, with a preface by TNH editor Lynn Siprelle. An excerpt taken from the preface:
The first thing a reader who is familiar with The New Homemaker will notice in reading these poems is that many of them are religious. Why then, the reader asks, is Lynn fond of them? Isn't TNH famously secular-and isn't she herself Pagan, not Christian?
Inchfawn's impulse strikes me as less specifically religious and more generally spiritual, or at least she can be read that way easily and without serious damage to her intent. Any homemaker who actively seeks out the Divine, as I do, can relate to such sentiments as this, from "Within My House":
Washing the breakfast dishes, so I think,
I paused a moment in my work to pray;
And then and there
All life seemed suddenly made new and
fair;
For, like the Psalmist's dove among the pots
(Those endless pots, that filled the tiny
sink!),
My spirit found her wings.
These are "homely" poems in the fullest sense. I hope you come to enjoy them as much as I have.
Price: US$1.95
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