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A Question of Time

A Question of Time

Dale, Kathleen a.

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639805362
ISBN13: 9781639805365
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 24 2024
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dale writes out of experience, out of knowing and not knowing, out of adversity, sorrow, joy, and amazement. The richness of these poems, written over a span of 54 years, comes from both their original subject matter and the maturation that can be found in poems such as Forty Years of Love and Escape: Spring, 1926 that have been revised over decades. Many of the poems in this collection reveal a mind that is continually revisiting earlier assumptions.

Social justice, grief, loss, transmutation-Dale finds wisdom in a nail salon, baseball, a sweet dog. She sees the difference between the things that cannot be improved on this simmering blue planet and those that can be made acceptable through personal perspective.

In these poems, time changes everything: place, relationships, even the delight once found in a ripe peach. Time also offers the possibility of transcendence over death in the metaphor of Leavening and a reframing of aging, offering the option that to be old is to be liminal, able to become anything.

In She Ponders Questions of Quantum Physics, Dales writes, Meaning remains the strange attractor of my life. Meaning and maturity are seamlessly fused in this wise and retrospective take on being here, now, and still able to become.

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