Ohio Blue Tips

With Ohio Blue Tips, Jeanne E. Clark's first collection of poetry, the reader is transported to Ohio's vast middle farmland, inescapable and without end, where her poems testify to the vulnerability of damaged souls and the incandescent reprieve of a moment's desire. In this landscape, common objects like a Bel-Air station wagon and "summer squash that in one day / Outgrows the garden" inhabit a world that vibrates with a sinister hum, becoming the combustible center of an otherwise ordinary life where everyone, even in this flat country of distant families, has the sudden potential to catch fire.