Heartwood

the long version

"Miriam Vermilya was a retired grade school teacher and a well known painter and writer in Greenville, Ohio, where she lived. The day before she died unexpectedly in January of 1999, she met with her writers group, the Greenville Poets, who helped her assemble her poems into the manuscript that in May would win the 1999 Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in Poetry.". "Vermilya's poems sum up her reflections on life, love, and marriage; the deaths of friends and family; and, most poignantly, on her own aging and death."--BOOK JACKET.