The Presence of Absence - Softcover

Coomer, Sandy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991191579 ISBN 13: 9780991191574

Verlag: Sandy Coomer, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The Presence of Absence is a collection of 40 poems about death. And about life. And about the continuous thread that meanders through these two extremes, linking them in inexplicable yet unmistakable ways. The poems explore loss, love, hope, and memory; the yearning through life's turns and twists; the confusion in painful endings; the acceptance and even gratitude in the natural cycles of our world. We cannot hold loss in our hands. We cannot touch tragedy, or explore its edges with fingertips. But we can know the "intimate grasp of the invisible" in the deepest, most sacred places of the heart. From a nursing home to a church parking lot, from a train station to a lawyer's office, from the open beauty of nature to an inner personal turmoil at home, the settings in this collection lead the reader through an environment of emotion that varies widely, yet always returns to the center by the paths that remain true. In both living and dying, we must make room for that mysterious element we may never understand. Recognizing this truth may be enough to "redeem the day," even as we struggle in our humanity to make sense of our world. Sometimes, there is a perceptible presence in death and loss, and sometimes, a discernable absence in living. These poems reach towards and acknowledge both.

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Sandy Coomer is a poet, artist, Ironman athlete, and social entrepreneur from Nashville, TN. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and she is the author of three poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection, Available Light (Iris Press). She is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and her poem, "Calligraphy" was a 2019 Best of the Net finalist. Sandy is a past poetry mentor in the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program and the founding editor of the online poetry journal Rockvale Review. She is the founder and director of Rockvale Writers' Colony in College Grove, TN, a not-for-profit organization that exists to support and educate writers of all genres and backgrounds. She is a teacher, a dreamer, and an explorer. Her favorite word is "believe."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sandy Coomer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0991191579
• ISBN 13: 9780991191574
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 56
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