Jeanne Blum Lesinski, a DePauw University graduate in French, juggled roles—freelance writer, editor, Amish home service librarian, and teaching assistant—while raising three children. Lesinski's writing often explores the dynamics between constraint and freedom, evident in her diverse poetic forms.

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In Tethers End, written over several decades, Lesinski grapples with questions of constraint and freedom, the controllable and chaotic in poems that range from traditional forms to lyric prose.