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Daybreak and Deep
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639801558
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 15 2022
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Marianne Worthington, Author of The Girl Singer
Jessica D. Thompson's extraordinary collection twirls and spins - a poetic sema, a deep listening - each poem a dervish, one hand receiving the blessings of attention - rose petals floating in a rain barrel; candlelight [warming] butter-crème walls, one hand bestowing the bittersweet gifts of remembrance - the symmetry of married sleep; the small hole in the front pocket of [a] late husband's 505 Levi's.
... beneath / the Big Dipper, I twirled / in long night gowns - / spinning round and round /
until I ran out of breath, / until the earth caught fire / beneath my bare feet.
We return from this modern-day heroine's journey, rejoicing in the blue light of May. I know I will return to this book again and again, for the pleasure of its linguistic grace and to listen to the sound of leaves / trembling - / like tambourines in trees.
-Kim Noriega, Author of Name Me
In Daybreak and Deep, Thompson gives us a collection of poems so delicately tuned to the ecology of love and loss that the book itself is a house of prayer for all people, for all creatures, for every leaf and bloom and weed, for this heartbreak, heaven of a life.
-Rebecca Gayle Howell, Author of American Purgatory and Render/An Apocalypse and Poetry Editor, Oxford American
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