To Claim Loneliness - Couverture souple

Ferleger, Doris

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888383117

Editeur : Finishing Line Press, 2023

Synopsis

"I have taken on the names/ . . . belonging to those I loved, who loved me. Their river stones/fell into my pockets," writes Doris Ferleger in her beautiful and deeply insightful chapbook, To Claim Loneliness. As a child throwing pieces of ritual bread into a river on Rosh Hashanah, the speaker "used to worry the fish might eat my sins and die." As a woman, the speaker wonders, "if grief left ungrieved/causes all discord," and if "the point is-(as a Hebrew song says)-to not be afraid." Finally, Ferleger offers the reader this moving message: "Maybe the only part/of the brain worth remembering-is the heart."

-Alison Hicks, author of Knowing is a Branching Trail, You Who Took the

Boat Out, and Kiss

In this strong and moving collection, To Claim Loneliness, Ferleger shows us poetry is possible after Auschwitz, that it resides in that ineffable space of not knowing where "Yiddish ended and Polish began," and how sweetbreads "heal" her "father's war years of raw/potatoes and piss." My favorite poem is "Be Happy and Never Forget." I love that it contains no trace of bitterness. The first poem, "Rivers," pulls us strongly in the flow of life, and the last poem, "At the Ghost Ranch" brings us back to the river, its "unfiltered river water." This is poetry of intergenerational witness, and it touches our deepest places in the heart/mind.

-Renee Rossi, author of Triage and Motherboard

Doris Ferleger once again stops us in our tracks with her mastery of language and emotional depth in her chapbook, To Claim Loneliness. Like the mare she imagines herself to be in one of her powerful poems, she says exactly what she wants to say with a shake of her shiny mane. I challenge anyone to finish this volume without the need to meditate on the depth and breadth within its pages.

-Lew Maltby, author of Smiling Axes

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Doris Ferleger, an award-winning poet and memoir essayist, is the author of four full length volumes of poetry entitle: Big Silences in a Year of Rain, As the Moon Has Breath, and As for the Kiss, and a chapbook entitled When You Become Snow. Aliki Barnestone writes: Ferleger's memorable poems keep singing with their insistent beauty. Ferleger holds an MFA in Poetry and a Ph.D. in Psychology, and maintains an Imago, Real Dialogue, and Non-Dual Healing informed psychotherapy practice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Finishing Line Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888383117
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible