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If Life Is Love

If Life Is Love

Madansky, Chuck

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639805907
ISBN13: 9781639805907
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jun 25 2024
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
As Confucius writes, We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. Chuck Madansky's intelligent, poignant and sensitive second collection, If Life Is Love, embodies this adage. The speaker's cardiologist tells him he's due to die in five years. Though that knowledge causes fear and trembling, it makes for heartfelt poems of deep attention and appreciation-clear-eyed poems that understand the suffering of the world but choose to privilege our lonely hope. These poems thrum with gratitude; they comfort and illuminate. Madansky deftly connects Aristotle and Oreos, Pandora and Goldilocks. And perhaps, in the end, it is the simplest experiences that teach us how to live. Here is what I know: this morning / the fog would not leave the pond / until almost noon. By then, our dog / had led me through the woods / bathed in mud, rank and happy.

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