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Open Heart
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807185
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 18 2025
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nicole Farmer's Open Heart is equal parts loss and exhilaration, saturated with humor, passion, and aching vulnerability. From sensual love to challenges of mother-daughter relationships, her poems embrace joy and discomfort, asking, Is it possible that / once cut, the pain of healing could feel like home? In this compact collection, Farmer manages to traverse an emotional spectrum and explore what it means to be a human in a body capable of great love and great loss, ready to wildly embrace the world with an open heart.
-Whitney Waters, Creative Writing professor at Western North Carolina University
No doubt you come to Open Heart anticipating its openness, the startling honesty with which Farmer drums her own world's heartbeat. But what you might not have anticipated is its range-that these poems are at once tender and torrential, wit and wild wonder. With each poem, Farmer demonstrates the complexity with which she builds the mother. Her bricks: the profound attention for surprising subjects-Southern Belles, sinewy spiders, and the eroticness of rain. These poems, at once body and bawdy, illustrate Farmer's deft hand in managing poetry between restraint and the need to take a leap.
-Dr. Diamond Forde, author of Mother Body
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