Jane Mead was the author of five collections of poetry: The Lord and the General Din of the World (1996), The House of Poured-Out Waters (2001), The Usable Field (2008), Money Money Money Water Water Water (2014), and World of Mad and Unmade (2016). In her recent work, Mead was known for engaging the Western landscape, ecology, and the debts of ancestry: she managed her family’s farm in Northern California, where she grew zinfandel and cabernet wine grapes. In his review of Money Money Money Water Water Water, Jeff Hamilton noted, “Mead’s poetic compass, then, leads her not in circles, but toward a horizon of tragic speech,” adding that she “writes georgics in a confessional mode.” She died in 2019.
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