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Travelers on My Route
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639802524
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Mar 2 2023
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Michael Palma
While the renowned arts with powerful literary journals, rapturous music, majestic frescoes can be our compass to human triumph or heartache, Carolyn Raphael astutely admits a life consumed with living cannot be fully chronicle[d]. And yet, with enamored and exquisite eloquence, she gives us a resonant glow from her life experiences and that of other real and imaginary figures, whom she gracefully and sensitively enters, and then looks out. Raphael evinces that by observing the world, we participate in making it. Traveling from joyous new birth, to meditations on a cricket serenade, to a noblewoman's complaints from inside a Renaissance water game, skillfully shaped by traditional and original craftsmanship, Raphael's poetic glow is rich with her keen attention and responsiveness to natural and human splendors and struggles, all marked by time's fingerprints.
-Gayl Teller
There still is time for laughter, declares Cosimo I de' Medici at the end of the poem Water Games, even though he has just enumerated unbearable losses that have befallen him. This pronouncement might as well be the motto of Travelers on My Route, a book that celebrates life despite trauma and tragedy, ravages of aging and illness. Resignation is never the answer. Instead, Carolyn Raphael always finds reasons for joie de vivre, while acknowledging the cycle of blossoming and decay: Some needles yellow, then turn to brown / and fall each fall. I think it's dying, / but it's only pruning the weak and old, / making way for the newly green (A Calendar of Trees). This is a wise and invigorating collection and a thrilling testament to the human spirit.
-Anton Yakovlev
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