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The Art of Immortality
Paperback
Publisher Price: $23.95
ISBN13: 9781774034705
Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Art of Immortality is a lyrical and metaphysical poetry collection that explores the emotional, spiritual, and existential dimensions of human life. Cynthia Pitman examines the fragile boundaries between mortality and endurance, presence and absence, and the physical world and the unseen realms that shape the human soul. Through vivid imagery and contemplative language, she reflects on memory, suffering, hope, redemption, and the desire to leave lasting impressions upon the world.
The collection opens with reflections on ancient Neanderthal cave art-handprints and flutings pressed into clay tens of thousands of years ago. These marks become a metaphor for the human impulse to defy extinction and declare existence across time. Pitman uses this image as a thematic foundation, exploring the ways individuals seek permanence through creation, emotion, and spiritual expression.
Throughout the book, Pitman moves through elemental and symbolic landscapes: mountains where sorrows are carried and released, forests that offer refuge and concealment, oceans that hold secrets of depth and transformation, and celestial thresholds where hope ascends. These settings serve as mirrors for the inner life, revealing the emotional and spiritual experiences that shape identity.
Her poems explore the transformative power of suffering, the resilience found in vulnerability, and the quiet strength that emerges from confronting darkness. She reflects on the tension between despair and hope, often using symbolic figures-doves, crows, angels, priests, wanderers-to embody the forces that guide or challenge the human spirit.
Pitman's voice blends tenderness with philosophical depth, offering readers a meditation on what remains when everything else falls away. She contemplates the marks individuals leave behind-stories, memories, sorrows, acts of creation-and the ways these impressions become a form of immortality.
With its blend of emotional resonance and metaphysical insight, The Art of Immortality invites readers to consider the nature of endurance, the ache of impermanence, and the quiet beauty of spiritual continuity. This collection offers a timeless reflection on the human desire to be remembered, to be felt, and to exist beyond the limits of mortality.
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