Bloodline

Bloodline by Clela Dyess Reed



These are powerful and lucid poems, alive with true sentiment, but  
never sentimental, about that inexhaustible . . . subject: family. 
  Thomas Lux, winner of Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, author of   
  God Particles (2008) 
 
Clela Reed has many stories—folksy, sensuous, arresting: her  
father listening to clouds, her mother in dementia where ―within  
her walls all seasons blur.‖ Such moments come with a vivid  
context of the physical world. 
  Linda Taylor, poet,  professor of English, Oglethorpe University 
  
The warm bloodline in these twenty-six poems extends not only to  
family—pioneer ancesters, ailing parents, siblings, husband and  
sons—but also to her Southern homeland, victims of Pompeii,  
characters from Little Women, trees and flowers and birds. . . 
  Therese L. Broderick, prize-winning poet, workshop leader,  author of Within View