Everything Needs Tending
The new book of poetry and art from Marienne Kreitlow and Susan Davies.
Inexorably rooted in her Minnesota farm origins and seasoned by her sojourns on each American coast, Mariénne Kreitlow delivers creations that delight in being spoken and danced as well as read. With chapter headings such as Family, Fae, and Fables, and titles like “Talking to Potatoes,” “Abominable Snowman’s Wife,” and “Dancing Marrow,” the reader accesses their own inner and outer riches. That the poet is also a songwriter, playwright, as well as an experienced performer, will come as no surprise as you traverse Kreitlow’s quirky and sacred landscapes in which everything is tended.
Artist Susan Davies provides visual energy signatures throughout.
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Everything Needs Tending is Mariénne Kreitlow’s Song of Selves. From her unflinching eye and wise heart, words shapeshift into poems, psalms, songs, word-paintings, and stories. A lifetime of following her intuition and shaping it into art has taught Kreitlow how to live, love, and dwell poetically upon the earth. Artist Susan Davies’s exquisite and dreamlike Asian brush paintings frame each chapter. They serve as sacred iconographs illuminating and foreshadowing
the poems to come.
- Richard Cambridge, Review & Interview Editor for Solstice Literary Magazine
Mariénne is a word genius. She brings dynamism to ordinary living and tosses every- thing into a sacred realm. One can cozy up to her words and feel comfort in her descriptions of freedom, memories, and love. She sees through the eyes of a burdened donkey, envisions someone juggling duck eggs, and memorializes a mouse, yet there is so much more. The stunning artwork holds hands with our imaginations and prepares our hearts for revelation and insight.
- Rev. Anne Sermons Gillis, interspiritual minister and author
Mariénne has an amazing gift of seeing and feeling into nature, land and the psyche of the human experience. She brings a
raw and fresh viewpoint to the reader, thus
creating epiphanies and awe of life and the experiences that come with it. She helps her readers open to their own creativity and joy.
- Kathleen Sherman, intuitive and author