But Still Music - Softcover

Pitkin, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1737052032 ISBN 13: 9781737052036

Verlag: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2022

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Anne Pitkin's third book, But Still, Music spans her childhood as a privileged white child in the Jim Crow South to the period of her grown daughter's death. The poems visit the disquieting contradictions of a southern childhood marked by honeysuckle and lightning bugs and the racist culture that was the air she breathed. A number of poems address the loss of her daughter. Still, in the end, as she says in the final poem. ''Tide, There you've been, loves of my life./ There you've changed me, one by one.

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anne pitkin grew up in the South, Clarksville, TN, when it was still a small town. She attended Vanderbilt University when the Civil Rights Movement was getting underway. She graduated just after Bloody Sunday, the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Some of the poems in this collection are about growing up as a privileged white child in the segregated South.Anne moved to Bellingham, WA when she married and subsequently to Seattle, where she has lived ever since.She has two grown children and two grandchildren. Their mother, her eldest, died three years ago. Many of the poems here address that loss.Anne is a retired community college English instructor. She went back to school and became a psychotherapist, sometimes practicing while still teaching. She is retired from both now. She plays jazz piano with her friends, pandemic permitting. She currently lives with her two dogs, Riley, an oversized Pomeranian and Klaus, a mini dachshund.This is her third full length collection, preceded by YELLOW and WINTER ARGUMENTS, and a chapbook NOTES FOR CONTINUING THE PERFORMANCE. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Chicago, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, One, New Orleans Review, New England Review, Rattle and many others.

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These are Anne Pitkin's interrogations of Loss, her moments alone with the Whirlwind that sweeps through human lives and systematically takes all that we love and cherish away from us. With fierce intelligence, humor, grace and great skill, Pitkin offers these haunting poems as her response. —Jesse Glass, ed. Ahadada Press There’s a fearlessness in the poems of Anne Pitkin’s But Still, Music. The poems span childhood, adulthood and everything in between: growing up in the Jim Crow south, marriage, divorce, the lifelong sorrow over a daughter’s passing, travel to distant lands, and the quiet glory of the natural world. Nothing is off limits, and that’s part of the bravery of this collection…including occasional moments of mordant humor and deeply earned revelations. —Ed Harkness, The Law of the Unforeseen & Beautiful Passing Lives Full of warnings, arguments, and reckonings, Anne Pitkin’s But, Still Music attempts to move beyond a mindset “pretend[ing] all is well,” whether in home, community, nation, or world… “It’s a long story,” she admits, how we eventually come to understand the past; how, in time, we see through perspectives not our own; and how we find mercy, acceptance, perhaps even redemption, as we move farther and more truthfully “into our broken-open world.”  —Jeff Hardin, Watermark and A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being 

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• Verlag: Pleasure Boat Studio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1737052032
• ISBN 13: 9781737052036
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90
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