Sugar the Blackberries

Joan Peck Arnold began writing poetry to work through the challenges of later life, in the process arriving at a way of healing and a fresh perspective on the everyday. In these poems, she looks frankly at difficult things — grief and loss, fear and illness, life's seasons and storms — to locate hope or make peace with what has come and gone. She shows us how to find solace and connection in an object, a memory, or a moment, in our senses, and in the poignant details of ordinary life. ​What