Noticing Eden By Marjory Heath Wentworth ISBN: 1-891885-34-0 Paperback 88 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 Publication Date: October 2003 $13,00

Fred Chappell says, "Noticing Eden establishes Marjory Wentworth as a poet of keen observation and passionate understanding. Her work is so thoroughly immersed in nature that it seems as if the sea and sky speak for her and not that she speaks of them."

In her first full collection of poems, Marjory Wentworth's canvas is Lowcountry South Carolina. In language that is elegant and piercing, she links the mysteries of the human experience with the power of the sea, the vagaries of the wind, the brilliance of the sun, always evoking the natural world in sensual detail.

Wentworth, poet laureate of South Carolina, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and educated at Mt. Holyoke College, Oxford University, and New York University. Her poems have appeared in numerous books and magazines, including Point, Skirt and Brightleaf magazine. Most recently, her poems have been published with Mary Edna Fraser's art in a book of poetry and monotype prints called What the Water Gives Me.