Silence Fell

Silence Fell marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from
the remote north of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in
the northern mountains and tell the story -- in the form of a modern shepherd's
calendar -- of Josephine Dickinson's marriage to a Cumbrian sheep
farmer, a man more than twice her age, and their life together, until his
death in 2004.

During a reading tour in England, Galway Kinnell was introduced to
Josephine Dickinson's work. Her poems made such an impression on him
that he passed the books on to his publisher and wrote a foreword for her
American debut.