Synopsis
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Elizabeth Bishop wryly comments in “One Art,” knowing full well it is, in fact, a most exacting art and one we must practice all our lives. If we have books like Wendy Fulton Steginsky’s When River’s Mouth Meets Ocean, we have role models of how, with dignity and grace, to bear the griefs, afflictions, dislocations, and violations that are part of our ongoing surrender of innocence. Mullet Bay, Spittal Pond, Silk Alley, Shinbone Alley, Governor’s Lane—we inhabit, in this crafted, courageous book, a world that is richly resonant. Take me with you, implores the speaker in one of the book’s finest poems. Wendy Fulton Steginsky does just that. The book’s title captures the essence of poetry: it is, indeed, the moment of reckoning and recovery, of energy and embrace, of words’ restlessness and language’s refuge, of wonder and wisdom, when river’s mouth meets ocean.
Christopher Bursk, author of The Way Water Rubs Stone
Wendy Fulton Steginsky brings to these poems an eye for the wondrous, an ear attuned to the rhythms of nature, and a brave, compassionate heart. Steginsky’s sensuous imagery and playful, questing spirit illuminate the past, as she reclaims injured parts of herself and restores wholeness and grace to a life now threatened by a latent blood disease. From the kiskadee in her beloved homeland, Bermuda, she learns to call out her own name, to break the silence about what has been stolen, to grieve what she has lost. These are poems that speak from the body and from an embodied natural world as Steginsky pushes against the “narrow walls” of patriarchy and colonialism while finding solace and delight in music, beauty, love, and the “measured breath” of the ocean.
Kim Aubrey, author of What We Hold In Our Hands
Wendy Fulton Steginsky’s latest collection of poems, When River’s Mouth Meets Ocean invites us to consider its title. How we are that river in continuous conversation with the vastness of the ocean. Just how does one survive in the face of that vastness? In one of its poems, a friend, close to death, asks, “Should I stay?” When the poet responds in the affirmative, the friend pleads for reassurance, “Then, hold my hand.” Be prepared to have your hand held with this book of poetry—even after you’ve put it down.
Steve Nolan, author of Go Deep
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When River's Mouth Meets Ocean
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
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