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Broken Grace at Low Tide
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639806553
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 19 2024
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sally Mohney's quiet images have great impact. Her sparse, yet rich language floats above a depth of meaning. Often portraying a sense of loss or something silenced, nature plays a leading role in many of the poems: As crepe myrtles slowly learn / how to stretch and unfold, / instead I am lost / in a thousand-acre sleep. This collection travels from small towns to cities such as Charleston and London, all while settling around your senses like a tattered cape of fog.
-Karen Paul Holmes, winner of the 2023 Lascaux Review Poetry Prize
Sally Mohney is a poets' poet, primarily concerned with the beguiling mysteries of words, content to trust her readers to find meaning in the liminal space among them. In this collection, though, she seems to want to bear witness to specific moments. After a wake, she waits for a train with her father, a yellowed apron of Edward Hopper / light settled on our backs. A mother states, You were born haunted. An owl's face is a crumpled camellia. I could go on; just about every line is memorable, but readers should savor them in context in this unique collection.
-Patricia Percival, author of Awake with Low Slung Moon, a Ron Self Chapbook Award winner
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