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Sophia's Poems

Sophia's Poems

Etxeberria, Sophia Dominga

Paperback

Series: Diaspora, Book 4

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0692527494
ISBN13: 9780692527498
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Sep 1 2015
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
My father's death created a doorway, said Sophia, a path to follow-- and I did. For years I wandered in a strange world, sinking to the bottom of dark holes, crawling on my hands and knees, trying to find my way through the dark. And then I found poetry. One by one my poems illuminated a path back to the everyday world. It is true: The antithesis of depression is creativity. She wrote these poems over a fifteen year period. She wrote in Argentina, Spain, the Basque Country, Wyoming, Arizona, California, the Grand Canyon and Colorado. I looked for him in the cante and baile of flamenco and in the Spanish and Basque languages. I caught glimpses of face, traces of his ghost. I studied the love letters he wrote to my mother from Peru. In the end I came up against the hugeness of the word dead. I hope these poems will guide my father home and help him to find peace.

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