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Joyful Annotations to the World Outside
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807581
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: May 15 2025
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In today's mood of swagger and slash, Carol Sadtler's clear-eyed reports from the field present a life of deep attention to her cherished clan and the living world. With an unfussy style, she achieves an almost stoic ecstasy as the narrator thrills to the flash of a red wing, the green scent of crushed herbs, the candlelight gleam on the Black Christ. Water figures not only as a healing force for sick loved ones and withering nature, but also as a rhythmic power far older and stronger than human life. The book's quiet focus on walking, swimming, and close observation lifts the reader above our fractured times into the mystery of a realm beyond knowing.
-Patrice Boyer Claeys, author, Lovely Daughter of the Shattering and The Machinery of Grace
In Joyful Annotations to the World Outside, Carol Sadtler offers a book of wise and quiet beauty. The book straddles the fine line between lament and celebration, between fear and joy, a paradox theologians often call ripeness. Her anchor is nature herself - doves and crows, mollusks and dogs, hickories and Black-eyed Susans - as the narrator embraces and transcends the broken and the contradictory. From the poem in which a 10-year-old girl feels her power for the first time as she pedals through summer fields, to the observations of a sister in her younger sister's final days, this poet is after truth and meaning, which we may or may not be / able to bear to know.
-Ralph Hamilton, Board Chair and former Editor of RHINO Poetry
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