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The Fifth House Tilts
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639801459
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jul 29 2022
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Peggy Hammond's The Fifth House Tilts is a brave exploration of the dissolution of a marriage and a remaking of oneself. The title makes use of astrology, which divides the sky into 12 houses, the fifth one being the so-called house of pleasure. Hammond uses this concept to render trouble in the house of love. The collection opens bravely mid-heartbreak and carries on with transformative music and imagery. The speaker becomes a part of nature, the seeds / rattling in a dry shell, a shy trout, while nature, in return, is anthropomorphized and the sky whispers rain. These poems are sensual, unveiling, illuminating, and they take us to a place beyond logic yet so real, raw, and relatable. They are a song and a solace.
-Andrea Jurjevic, Author of Small Crimes
Hammond's engaging collection, The Fifth House Tilts, explores themes of strength and resilience through the fictional speaker's journey of re-building the self. Her protagonist, a courageous single parent, searches for wholeness of being. Each poem is a tender stepping stone in the process of letting go, grieving the loss of a marriage, and embarking on a new life. Beautiful images of nature are woven throughout, as in the poem Dragonfly, where her son is soft-bodied, vulnerable, / new wings woven of lace and hope .... Ultimately, these stunning poems guide us towards renewal, the shape of new life is different / but it breathes / and reaches for the sun ....
-Cristina M. R. Norcross, Founding Editor, Blue Heron Review, Author of The Sound of a Collective Pulse, Beauty in the Broken Places, and other titles
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