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Low-water's Edge
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ISBN10: 1733534539
ISBN13: 9781733534536
Publisher: Headmistress Press
Published: Jan 25 2020
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781733534536
Publisher: Headmistress Press
Published: Jan 25 2020
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
FINALIST FOR THE CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE The speakers in this chapbook honor our clumsy, loving, mysterious relationship to the natural world-to fox, horse, and spider. A deceased mother returns to her daughter, in a dream, to say, stop/ wasting time. As if in response, one narrator declares that she sleeps in a cramped bedroom/ with my lover and two dogs. Violence and loss prompt thoughtful lyrics on navigating grief.
-Robin Becker, judge of the Charlotte Mew Prize and author of The Black Bear Inside Me In Jean A. Kingsley's moving collection Low-water's Edge, nature itself comes to a full stop to listen to a world in the throes of constant change. Be it personal or global, here are the bruises and scars that accumulate on body and soul over a lifetime spent negotiating the daily vicissitudes of danger and beauty, love and loss. From the vast patchwork of a night sky to dark birds that cannot fly and the almost stifling intimacy of a backyard that whispers tend to me, tend to me these poems invite the reader into the endless dance of life and death where Somewhere brown cows bow to no one/while a mourner idly adjusts her veil.
-Tina Schumann, author of Praising the Paradox, Requiem, and A Patrimony of Fugues Low-water's Edge is a fascinating amalgam of disparate ideas that forms a complete universe of the author's travails and hard-won truths. Honest and raw, Kingsley's poems weave together nature and nurture into a world where grief and happiness stand side-by-side.
-Kate Carroll de Gutes, author of Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
-Tina Schumann, author of Praising the Paradox, Requiem, and A Patrimony of Fugues Low-water's Edge is a fascinating amalgam of disparate ideas that forms a complete universe of the author's travails and hard-won truths. Honest and raw, Kingsley's poems weave together nature and nurture into a world where grief and happiness stand side-by-side.
-Kate Carroll de Gutes, author of Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
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