Rare Earths
In Rare Earths, poet and novelist Deena Linett has created an intriguing and suspenseful story in verse. Mairi MacIntyre, a young archaeologist, travels to the desolate North Sea Island of St. Kilda where—in journal excerpts and letters—she comes to terms with her own repressed longings and inner life, and her ties to the women who once inhabited the island.
Deena Linett has published two prize-winning novels, On Common Ground and The Translator’s Wife. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals including The Missouri Review, in which ten poems from Rare Earths appeared in the 20th Anniversary Issue in May 1997. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey.
Deena Linett is Professor of English at Montclair State University in New Jersey. She has published short fiction, non-fiction, and two prize-winning novels. She received 1996 and 2002 fellowships to the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Scotland. Linett was awarded a 2004 residency fellowship to the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Sweden.
