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Elegy with Clouds &
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807215
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 18 2025
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Robin Turner's Elegy with Clouds & is a vivid almanac for a sorrow season, recollecting an absence & / an everywhere, a before & an after, my trickster / mother, a shape ever shifting. These poems sound the distances between mother and daughter, between daughter and her childhood self, hueing the intimate and elemental in the spaces that bridge them: a ruthless unspooling of days, a night ocean, white rocks, blue lips in blue light. Turner's deft lyrics pare line and sound down to the stark relief and concavities of grief. What a mother may forget, a poem may call back; a leaving's silence may bloom into clouds. These fine poems keen and dream their way towards the return of the red resurrection flower...its intricate blossom a year's dark, deepening.
-Sally Rosen Kindred, author of Where the Wolf
Robin Turner's luminous Elegy with Clouds & opens with a fear that lives in all of us: the loss of one's mother. In this collection blood meets blue / a poem blooms. What more could one ask of poetry but to speak this truth? The poems that follow simultaneously mourn the loss of a mother and remind us that there is peace in beauty. A single, white swan gives us space to practice silence, while a later poem opens a window to sky. Sorrow isn't simple and sometimes isn't quiet, as Keen and Flight show us. The collection's closing section begins with a doorway open to the future. Grief is still present, but so is memory, and these are found simultaneously in lily ponds and rain and sky.
-Christine Klocek-Lim, editor of Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY
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