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Hold the Contraries
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639805037
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 14 2024
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Lauren K. Carlson, inaugural Lorine Niedecker Fellow and author of Animals I Have Killed
In Hold the Contraries, Angela Hoffman explores the paradoxes that life presents. Here are poems of emotional complexity, rapturous imagery, and surprising juxtapositions: I cut the last of the pink hydrangeas. I cut off intimacy. They acknowledge pain, doubt, driving in fog, snow, rain, ice, reveal evening primrose, night phlox / all dancing in their nightgowns. Amid suffering, Hoffman struggles to find peace: sit in the stillness, / feel earth's tender breath, just like the moth. Both spiritual and deeply human, these poems were composted in my garden, / turned over and over into wisdom. I savored them; so will you.
-Peggy Turnbull, author of The Joy of Their Holiness
This is a most enjoyable collection of poems. The works engage the senses and massage all emotions. Angela's skill in a poem's universality shines in When Clouds Break Open and Rain Her keen observation skills give the reader focus on a wide range of science facts and human interactions. Her personal poems take the reader on the journey of Angela's adult life and finding her voice.
-Nancy Rafal, Door County Poet Laureate 2019-2021
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