Mute Gospel (Poetry)
Author: Nancy Huxtable Mohr
ISBN: 979-8-953140-00-3
Publisher: River Paw Press
Page Count: 38
Language: English
Price: 17.99
Mute Gospel is a book of beauty of the rural America, connection with the land, ancestral stories, nature, and ecological awareness, strung together as luminous pearls of poetry.
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“Nancy Mohr’s latest collection of poetry, Mute Gospel, envisions the dimming past, bringing back to words the working farm where she was raised. With the reach of sharpened memory, she speaks that past into the present, an image-rich presence we can inhabit with her. Elegiac and reverential, Mohr’s poems pay homage to the vanishing voices of the family farm, whether parent or field, animal or earth, sky or seasons of change, revealing the silent sustenance each still provides when we listen, reminding us of what more we might lose in the face of progress and climate challenges. “I rename lost points / of connection between two worlds,” she says. Rooted in the now, Mute Gospel will transport you to a different time and a distant place in poems that are timeless, that touch upon universal places in the heart.”
— Sally Ashton, poet and author of Going to the Moon
“There might be a point at which it makes sense / to stop describing what doesn’t happen anymore,” Nancy Mohr concedes, but her poems recall a connection of humans to landscape and to each other that is as precious as any gospel, that these poems exist to locate and preserve. Balancing between nostalgia and solastalgia, Mute Gospel finds “not a voice, not a message but something / so present I do not want to name it.”
— Jennifer Grotz, poet and author of Still Falling
“Mute Gospel carries a deeply rooted sense of place, a lyrical exploration of inheritance, ecology, family, and the enduring spirit of rural America. With compassion, abiding hope, and emotional generosity, the collection embraces both the hardships and the simple joys of everyday life, reminding us that resilience often grows from our deepest connections to one another and to the land. Rich in humanity, warmth, and gentle wisdom, it celebrates the enduring strength of the human spirit while offering readers a work of lasting grace and affirmation.”
— Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, poet and judge, 2026 Silent River Poetry Prize
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