Letting Go: Collected Poems 1983-2003 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780985387501)

Donna Lisle Gordon-Burton was raised in eastern Ohio, beside the Ohio River, in an area of coal mines and steel mills - now mostly gone. Burton has lived in the South for most of her life, working as a special education teacher for four decades - a dozen years in Tuskegee, Alabama, and twenty-eight in Greenville, SC. In retirement she has had a number of her poems published in literary magazines including Atlanta Review, Illuminations, Potpourri, Main Street Rag, Kalliope and The Licking River Review, among others. An accomplished painter, portraitist, and photographer, she has lived with her husband, Alan Burton, near the Blue Ridge Parkway on a dead-end gravel road in Fairview, NC, since 2003.