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The Plague of the Tender-Hearted
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $24.99
ISBN13: 9781646627509
Publisher: Finishing Line Pr
Published: Sep 23 2020
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Plague of the Tender-Hearted, Cindy Frenkel makes her way through the maze of family death, divorce, even a brother's suicide without ever losing the ability to embrace joys small and large. Despite heart-rending troubles there is still beauty in the natural world, the discovery of an unlikely new love, and moments with a beloved daughter when night stars spill out, / enough to occupy the universe.
-Mary Jo Firth Gillett
With her three-part alchemy of plain speaking, suddenly perfect metaphors, and explosive, morally anchored last lines, Cindy Frenkel portrays a family in The Plague of the Tender-Hearted. From the witty to the elegiac, the poems quest for the why beneath a brother's suicide and examine the underside of prosperity. But the marvels of this collection are the sassy buoyant poems of love for a daughter and unexpected love after divorce. Frenkel uses memory, the dynamics of ageing parents, and the legacy of the Holocaust to pierce us with her bullseye poetic one-liners. The Plague of the Tender-Hearted, with its gem-like rhymes, is both an exploration and a revelation.
-Molly Peacock, author of The Analyst and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems
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