Title: The gift to be simple
First published: 1975
Description: Here , the story of Mother Ann Lee's (Founder of the Shaker Religion) childhood in Manchester, England; her imprisonment for blasphemy: her visions; and her departure for America are all told in poetry as simply honed and lyrically lucid as Shaker furniture and art itself. This is the first of Peters' book-length persona poems.

"This is real poetry, alive and unpretentious." --M.L. Rosenthal, The New York Times.
Subjects: Poetry, Shaker women, Shakers, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Places: England, Manchester
People: Ann Lee (1736-1784)
Time periods: Eighteenth century
LC classification: PS3531.E827 G5 1975