Witness - Couverture souple

Pittard, Shawn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1956285776 ISBN 13 : 9781956285772

Editeur : Poetry Box, 2024

Synopsis

Grounded in a landscape of rivers, oceans, forests and dreams, Witness is an intimate and unflinching exploration of family, love, aging, dementia, caregiving and death. These poems are meditations on the changing sense of identity we experience in older age which, ultimately, reveals one's unique, intrinsic character. By caring for his declining mother, the poet is guided into his own older age and towards a better understanding of his own essential self.

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"The poems in Shawn Pittard's Witness offer us a world where every breath, every step could be the last, yet each also serves as revelation, a panorama, a shimmering strand in the web of connection and existence."

-Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of Frangible Operas

"With these reflections Pittard invites us to appreciate the paradoxes raised by death-the mundane becoming the sacred; the losses, a gift; mortality AND joy."

-Molly DenBoer Stuart, facilitator, "Conversations About Death" programs

"It is a work of beautifully assembled words shaped around gratitude and respect. It is a book of sharing. ... Deeply personal. A reflection. A celebration- Shawn opens the door and welcomes you to come inside."

-Danyen Powell, facilitator, The Sacramento Poetry Center's Tuesday Night Poetry Workshop

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

In addition to Witness (The Poetry Box, 2024), Shawn Pittard is the author of two slender volumes of poetry: Standing in the River, which was the winner of Tebot Bach's 2010 Clockwise Chapbook Competition, and These Rivers from Rattlesnake Press. He's been a coach for Poetry Out Loud and a California Poet in the Schools. Shawn taught recitation and writing in middle schools and high schools, including juvenile hall (yep, they're good kids), as well as with veterans and the men in Folsom Prison. By day, he labored in the field of environmental protection, planning, and public policy, focusing on energy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Poetry Box
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1956285776
• ISBN 13: 9781956285772
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 36
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible