Recalling the Blue Ridge in Summer

A look at a poem by Jane Ellen Glasser

Jane Ellen Glasser lives in South Florida these days, with not a mountain in sight. But her rich memories of the Blue Ridge Mountains weren't left behind when she moved from her home in Virginia.

In fact, they remain fresh and evocative, and continue to color and shape her poetry, explicitly so in "Recalling the Blue Ridge in Summer," originally publishe…