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“Tell me, Ravenous One, your name / as you rage through my blood, / growing a multitude of lymph cells,” begins one of the first poems in Wendy Fulton Steginsky’s Let This Be Enough. The book’s title reveals so much about what lies inside its covers: words bravely grounded and transcendent, acts of attention that find beauty in the midst of our lives’ boundaries, invigorating poetry that proves a pure pleasure to read. One of the book’s greatest delights is the section in which the poet’s other selves are allowed to speak, especially that “kick-ass chick” named Ursula. Confronting her mortal threads, this writer knows to honor the play of the mind and to celebrate the wonder of this flawed and astonishing world.
—Christopher Bursk, author of The Improbable Swervings of Atoms
Wendy Fulton Steginsky’s poems are rendered in a perfect pitch, with intimate imagery that remind the reader awe is the appropriate response to our natural environment. A beholding of existence through her careful eye is a constant in her poems, turns the reader into a pilgrim in life's harder turns. However, it is her transitions, an immaculate sense of cadence that allow her poems to move, stretch and open within their own meaning. As they fill out, there is no “equal sign” given, rather it is questions we are left with, the reach of each into a universe wondrously “glissades the currents,” pushes against the edge.
—Nancy Anne Miller, author of Star Map
Whether harbor seal, a field of waving fireweed, plump bluebirds at a strip mall, the natural world is what Wendy Steginsky, with her acute, unflinching observation in Let This Be Enough, looks to for answers of “how to unfurl into such exquisite rhythms, declare them her own.” Whether trying to reconcile hope and acceptance after a diagnosis of a chronic medical condition or harmonize the pull towards her native home, Bermuda, and her residence in Pennsylvania, she seeks consolation from Bermuda’s longtail whose “life’s a wake of leaving / and returning;” she implores the sparrow, “rust-brown bundles of song / teach me to sing.” Her poems can be read as prayers: “A rugged acceptance of all living things in these vaulted woods.” As she gleans “From the life-giving root of paw paw, chameleon skin and feathers from a crow, / I will claim my warrior power,” she shows us the possibility of claiming our own and the possibility to let this be enough.
—Sandra Becker, author of Dread Islands
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Wendy Fulton Steginsky is the author of The Tide of Bermuda’s Light (Aldrich Press, 2014). She attributes her love for poetry to growing up in Bermuda where the sea’s rhythms seeped into her bones and stayed. She is an interfaith minister, ordained in 2011 by One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, New York, N.Y. Her work has been published in two volumes of Bermuda Anthology of Poetry, Bermuda Reading and Writing Festival Companion 2014, courtesy of Read*Write*Bermuda Books and the Buechner Society of Bermuda, And The Questions Are Enough, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, US 1 Worksheets, online at tongues of the ocean, Wild River Review and featured in an exhibition, Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (November 2012 through March 2013). Currently she resides happily in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Let This Be Enough
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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 90 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.23 inches. In Stock. N° de réf. du vendeur zk1945752025
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