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Jane Downs retired from the University of California Press in 2008. She is co-editor of Cloud View Poets, An Anthology published in 2005. Her poems have received first place in contests sponsored by Artists Embassy and Tide Pool. Her work appears in literary journals including the Ninth Letter, Asheville Poetry Review, North American Review, and Field Magazine.
   

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The Weight of Pink Peonies
By Jane Downs
Kensington / Fairfax, California: Red Berry Editions, 2010.
Edition of 30.

8.5 x 5.5"; 24 pages. Letterpress printed in Adobe Caslon Pro on Johannot paper. Bound by hand in Lama Li handmade paper from Nepal.

A series of ten poems inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone and Demeter. Poems have appeared separately in Field Magazine, Quiddity, The Healing Muse, Folio, So to Speak, and RHINO.

     Cut grass smells sweeter than uncut. A new of newborn
     Rabbits under the lawn. I ache to touch one, know my
     Scent would banish the mother. How careful I must be….
     (from "The Weight of Pink Peonies")

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