MARTHA TREICHLER POETRY BOOK RELEASE

FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of "Variations on a Theme" by Martha Treichler,
a 72 page hand-sewn paperbook with spine - $16.00. This is Martha's third FootHills release.

Release date: 4/7/14.
Free domestic shipping if ordered by 4/6/14.


From the book:

Visiting Grandma

Supper was over.
Grandma bent over her quilt frame
under the lamp.
The radio rattled on.

Grandpa sat in his big chair
eyes closed
big man bone tired after a long day
in his woods and his saw mill.

I, big girl of seven,
sat on Grandpa’s lap
combing his long gray beard,
gently divided it in two
braided each side
tied on a pink ribbon
from Grandma’s work basket.

The radio rattled on.
Grandma chuckled.
Grandpa smiled
eyes closed.


Martha Treichler is a retired teacher of English and French, and a retired Registered Dietitian. She has a BA from Goddard College, and an MALS from Dartmouth College. She and her husband Bill were enthusiastic students of history, and published the Crooked Lake Review, a journal of the history of Upstate New York, from 1988 until Bill's death in 2008.

She also writes history articles for the Echoes, the quarterly journal of the Steuben County Historical Society, and has published Stories of Mt. Washington, a history of the hill in Steuben County, N.Y. where she and Bill bought a farm forty years ago.

Variations on a Theme
is a 72 page hand-sewn paperbook with spine - $16.00.