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Choosing the Lake
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639805266
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Marsha de la O, author of Creature
Nina Clements chooses the lake as her confidante, her reflection, and we willingly dive in beside her, swimming through our own lives as well as hers. It is an honor to share this lake with such a superior guide.
-Kim Dower, author of five collections of poetry including I Wore This Dress Today for You Mom
In Choosing the Lake, Nina Clements's second full-length poetry collection, the lake serves as the central metaphor: a place of healing and penance, a place of exile, as well as rebirth. In these sparse, yet eloquent meditations, the speaker navigates a landscape where scar tissue along the ridges of the heart resembles ice and the movement of tectonic plates. These poems are always in search of what is not here, of what is lost, and what can be taken away. They are familiar because they speak to us directly, conjuring our own fears and desires.
-Jason Irwin, author of The History of Our Vagrancies
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