Winter Pears

Short, plain-spoken poems about a mother’s last winter. I read it in one sitting and then again, slowly, with a pencil.

Cover of Winter Pears by Lotte Brenner

Forty short poems about the last winter of the poet's mother: hospital corridors, a radio left on, pears ripening on a sill.

Brenner never reaches for a big image when a small one will do. I read it in one sitting, then again with a pencil.