Georgia Ressmeyer

Waiting to Sail: Poems by Georgia Ressmeyer

Waiting to Sail is a 90-page collection of poems by Wisconsin poet Georgia Ressmeyer. Written in a range of styles -- narrative, lyrical, formal, free verse, humorous -- the poems embrace the sorrows and joys of her own life and those of the people and creatures around her. She writes of her experiences as a child retreating from the special scrutiny that goes with being a Preacher's Kid into reading, swimming, and sailing on Long Island's North Fork; an attorney representing clients with mental illnesses and disabilities in Milwaukee; an adult daughter helping her parents through decline and death; a poet and arts promoter in Sheboygan reveling in the natural beauty of her adopted state, from the Ice Age Trail to the shoreline of Lake Michigan to the birds and plant-life of her own back yard.