This Rocking Motion of Time - Couverture souple

Pearson, Yvonne

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888382738

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2023

Synopsis

Yvonne Pearson's poems in This Rocking Motion of Time are deeply incarnational. These fearless lyrics exult and grieve for what the body undergoes in its passage through youth, through love and age. They form a gorgeous, sensual testament to being mortal, to being here, and to knowing this will not always be so.

-Susan Deborah King, Poet, Moon Dance, Dropping Into the Flower, One-Breasted Woman, Coven, Tabernacle (Poems of an Island)

In this beautiful collection of poems, Yvonne Pearson casts a panoramic look at her life and asks, "How do we live with/this rocking motion of time?" This question informs all the book's poems, poems about a childhood in Northern Minnesota, about raising children, about a long marriage. With rich imagery and quiet lyricism, the poems articulate the joys and complications of daily life. An open curiosity and generosity inform the collection, exploring the mysteries of time and the meaning one might make of a life. And while the central question Pearson asks is unanswerable, the book's final poem suggests an understanding born of experience: "I cannot choose what comes in/The darkened line, the shadow/enters with the light? So be it." Shadow and light; joy and sorrow; birth and death-all of these make up the rocking motion of time, and Pearson, in the last words of the collection, welcomes them in.

-Cullen Bailey Burns, Poet, Paper Boat, Slip

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yvonne Pearson's poetry has appeared in a range of publications including Plainsongs, Split Rock Review, Main Street Rag, Wolf Head Quarterly, Chrysalis, Sidewalks, and Literary Mama. She has received a McKnight Writing Fellowship, a Loft Creative Non-Fiction Award, two Minnesota State Arts Board grants, and other awards. A freelance writer, retired clinical social worker, and children's author, she lives in Minneapolis with her husband. She has three children and three grandchildren and loves hiking along the Mississippi River.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888382738
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 46
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne