Journey Fruit
Kinereth Gensler
"Kinereth Gensler has traveled far, moving freely across
barriers, from Skowhegan to Jerusalem, from Hyderabad to Boston, and she brings everything
she knows—wildflower and losses, grief and acceptance—into the continuous
present of poetry. Journey Fruit is a graceful, wise, and
rewarding book."
—Chana Bloch
"In understanding poems and brilliant short prose memoirs, Journey
Fruit tells of a lifetime’s travel (‘an orange is the perfect
journey fruit’). Kinereth Gensler spent her 1930's childhood winters in Jerusalem and
summers in Maine. As a girl, Gensler loved ‘the four sister ships of the American
Export Line—the Exeter, the Excalibur, the Excambion, and the Exchorda.’ She
writes, ‘After the war I asked around to see which of the Exes had survived the Nazi
U-boats, but none of them had.’ Alert to irony and at ease with sorrow, Gensler
offers us a generous, exciting book."
—Alice Mattison
about the author
Kinereth Gensler grew up in Chicago and Jerusalem. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her M.A. from Columbia University. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and taught in the Radcliffe Seminars for more than twenty years. In addition to her three volumes of poetry with Alice James Books, she was co-author with Nina Nyhart of The Poetry Connection, a text for teaching poetry writing to children.
also by kinereth gensler: without roof and three some poems
