I knew from the time I was a teenager that this was where I wanted to live. Place, therefore, is of primary

importance to my work. As a landscape painter, my poems often have a strong visual component. Family, too, is often present in my work. Swimming, cross country skiing and running are all passions which keep me out in the two thousand acres of town land around my home.
My work pivots on a kind of reciprocal regard, of noticing the world around me, and being seen and revealed to
myself in the process. A dream that I had twenty years ago sums up the focus of my work: I was a raven, soaring over the familiar hills and lakes of my town, even right through the town hall - as if to embrace and celebrate all aspects of the town, its wild and human communities. My work is a claiming of my rich life as artist, mother and community member. Moving for two years to Costa Rica offered further examination of these same concerns in a place both remarkably like and unlike Eaton.
Sharing poems with mentors and friends has been my best schooling over the years. Mentors include Alice
Fogel and Cleopatra Mathis. My main poet companion is Kimberly Cloutier-Green, with whom I have had an invaluable correspondence for a decade. I took wonderful classes from MeKeel McBride and Charles Simic at UNH from 1998-2001, and graduated with an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson’s low residency program in 2006.

All books were designed and bound by Marnie Cobbs unless otherwise credited.

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Marnie Cobbs
   
Up On the Ridge  (2009) A new book of thirteen poems and twenty details of paintings. This book celebrates the blueberry ridge above the author's home, and comes from years of wandering there on foot or ski, rain or shine. 20 pages and bound in a handmade paste paper cover with a paper label. $5 per book goes to the Land Acquisition Fund in Eaton, NH for land preservation. 9” x 5 1/2”  
$35 plus shipping 		  Treehouse Poems (1998) When I was 21, I lived for a year in a treehouse. The following year I dove into learning bookbinding as a vocation, but it took another 21 years for me to make the poems into this book. 54 page commercially bound paperback, sewn on acid free paper. Designed by Laurie Downey. 9’’ x 5 ¼” 
$10 plus shipping 		 
   
   
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Coming Home  (2007) A longing to make a book crept up on me, and this book came through hard and fast. Early poems from when my boys were small with a simple binding. Hand sewn and bound in blue paper with a front label. 15 poems and 6 paintings. 7 ½” x 4 ¾”  
$20 plus shipping 		  Sloping Pastures  (2006) A taste of Costa Rica, The accordion binding holds 5 poems and 3 paintings. The cover paper was handmade by a women’s papermaking cooperative in San Luis, a village just below Monteverde.  4 ½” x 6”. Opens out to 27”
$20 plus shipping 		 
       
       
 
     
Swimming Poems (1998) Nine poems celebrating swimming in the lake near my home. The intense labor of producing this hardcover book convinced me to take time to focus on my writing before launching another book project. Hand bound in quarter cloth with a reproduction of a painting of the lake. Designed by Bruce Kennett. 8 ¾” x 5” Limited edition.
$50 plus shipping