<strong>Silence Fell</strong> marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from the remotenorth of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northe... » 

Silence Fell marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from the remotenorth of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountainsand tell the story in the form of a modern shepherds calendar ofJosephine Dickinsons marriage to a Cumbrian sheep farmer a man more thantwice her age and their life together until his death in 2004. During areading tour in England Galway Kinnell was introduced to Josephine Dickinsonswork. Her poems made such an impression on him that he passed the books on tohis publisher and wrote a foreword for her American debut. «