Tumbled Time - Couverture souple

Linkas, Cynthia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1950462986 ISBN 13 : 9781950462988

Editeur : Kelsay Books, 2020

Synopsis

Cynthia Linkas isn’t afraid to express the kind of happiness that would stun most of us into silence. At a daughter's wedding, she’s “remembering how many times we’ve tumbled oh, how we’ve tumbled / into a net so strong, /so tightly woven.”

Her love is deeply serious. Barn owls mate for life, and “when one mate dies, the other spins his head / around over his back and stops hunting.” And to her husband, she describes, “one skin stretched over two beings.” In her family life, and her music teaching, her religion of praise is grounded in the body: She sees the tall winter trees that surround her yard as “muscular, towering angels“ and an infant daughter as “soon to turn” a “strong yell/ into fiery song.” Linkas has music flowing in her veins, and reading these poems will make you braver about acknowledging the depth of your own joy.

—Alan Feldman, winner of the 2016 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry; Author of Immortality and The Golden Coin

As the editor of a quarterly poetry journal, I have read scores of poems from contemporary poets, but few have measured up to the poems in this moving collection by Cynthia Linkas. Out of all the poems I have read, none of them have moved me more or stayed with me longer than her poems “Heron” or “Stars.” They have stayed with me since I first read them more than a decade ago.

Ms. Linkas choreographs words, images, and feelings to reveal both the iridescent in the ordinary and the everlasting in the life-altering. If poetry were music, she would be a Stradivarius.

Play on!

—Peter C. Leverich, Editor / Emeritus The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kelsay Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1950462986
• ISBN 13: 9781950462988
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
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