Mayweed

By Frannie Lindsay

2009 Washington Prize winner

With seamless craft and lyricism, Frannie Lindsay elevates personal grief to a universal level. Through the natural world, she invites “mayweed, earnest as milkmaids” to flood the valley of death. Lindsay offers the reader light, often surprisingly warm, in the chill darkness of death. Cover art by Deborah Mayhall Bradshaw.