In her first book of poetry, In Winter I Burn Poems, Diana Lischer brings to life a vibrant visual landscape that stretches from her home in the Green Mountains of Vermont, to the mystical Southwest, to the villages of Mexico and beyond. Organized around the four seasons of New England, each poem is a sensory meditation: cozy fires during the long winter, mushrooms in damp spring, bright flowers in sweltering summer, and bountiful apple harvests in fall. At times sensuous and subtle, magical and mundane, Lischer’ s poems capture nature’ s hidden moments, transforming the everyday into a rich sensory feast.