DISPATCHES
FROM EARTH
POETRY BY
MISSY REZNY
About
Dispatches from Earth is a three-part reflection of life on this planet, a contemplation of all we have and all we have to lose. Paying homage to both the natural world and the interior one, this debut collection stops to revel in daily details and surreal wonderings, the solitude and joy of memory, the bittersweet nature of change.
Missy Dondlinger Rezny is a poet, writer and creative director. She was born in Kansas and graduated from the University of Missouri's Journalism School. She lived in Italy briefly and New York longer than expected. She now resides in Colorado with her husband and son.
Dispatches from Earth is her first book of poetry.
Reviews
With a deft sense of etymology and rhythm, Dispatches from the Earth explores our delicate and evolving relationship to nature, time and motherhood. In such a collection, ordinary images—from plums to moons to dinner plates to blood and snow and twilight—become a little something more, something that seems all too human, full of color and motion yet fragile and spare.”
These poems keep a watchful, necessary eye on the Earth and its processes. They live and breathe yet also turn their gaze inward to explore the haunting nature of a broken lover’s psyche and the unavoidable reshaping of identity that comes with motherhood. Occasionally calling on ancient languages, Dispatches from Earth prods and pokes at some of our most ancient questions. This is a beautiful debut from Missy Rezny.
Dr. Rachel Harper,
University of Missouri Honors College
Jesse Morse,
Clark College English Department