Description
These supple, melodious poems address mortality with humor and wit, "smacked/ like a mackerel onto the deck/ of the unknowable," as the speaker loses family and friends, survives her own heart event and surgery, and takes care of her wife as she undergoes cancer treatment during the Coronavirus pandemic. Employing spare, vivid language, she practices appreciation, empathy and compassion-for self and others, across political aisles and species-and the acceptance of the imperfect as the perfect lesson, as welcome or necessary steps to wisdom, slipping and sliding a flash-lit, joyful, snowy way to an abiding gratitude.
Author: Laura Foley
Publisher: Fernwood Press
Published: 12/10/2024
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d
ISBN13: 9781594981494
ISBN10: 1594981493
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | LGBTQ+
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss
- Poetry | Women Authors