In Lanette Cadle’s The Tethered Ground the landscapes of Kansas and Missouri chart the emotional seasons questioning and connection. Here, intimate communication that is lost in texts and emails finds its language and reason through poetry, resisting the urge to simplify and solve.  The winged things of this world are sometimes messengers and sometimes hands. Although “spring in Kansas is all about disaster,” snow makes it new again, and what we’ve planted and hoped for rises up with all the promise of life.

—Traci Brimhall, author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod

Lanette Cadle’s The Tethered Ground takes on motherhood and mortality, astrology and the healing powers of nature, in this new collection. Her compassionate, careful voice focuses on the small beauties that punctuate our world.

—Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of Field Guide to the End of the World

Lanette Cadle’s The Tethered Ground conjures a world filled with the dark romance of inevitable storms and damage, like the redbud tree growing too close to the fence, and  explores  our  ability  to  dwell  within  this  potential  for  loss,  to  even  embrace  it.  These  poems  see  clearly  what’s  roiling  on  the  horizon,  but  stay  outdoors  anyway,  knowing that, as with the fire on the Kansas prairie, seeds may pop open and “green can  follow.”  This collection thoughtfully  explores  our  everyday  braveries  and  the  complexities of their risks and rewards.

—Mary Quade, author of Local Extinctions