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Some Flawed Magic

Some Flawed Magic

Caspers, Patricia

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639800123
ISBN13: 9781639800124
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Sep 28 2021
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this beautiful new book, Some Flawed Magic, poet Patricia Caspers draws detailed portraits of relationships that span both time and place. Each poem brims with sensory detail, including a dying cow who knelt prayer-like on front legs; and a family sewing machine that hides in its scratched cabinet like an ivory treasure. Against a backdrop of pastures, trees, rain-gullied snails, distant pickups, and the mildew scent of geraniums, Caspers crafts a world where, All of my childhood/ was this: gorging on neglect, praying/ for my eyes to glow golden. By the end of the collection, the poet has studiously examined not only her own life, but the lives of her children. The book closes with infinite wisdom: This is not grief, / but its sister perhaps, / the goodbye of growing up. Some Flawed Magic paints three generations of care, kindness, and intimacy with craftful strokes and colors.

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