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The Other Side
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807697
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jul 21 2025
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lynne Carol Austin's poetry is deeply introspective and unflinchingly honest. She writes with great sensitivity of her conflicted feelings of sorrow, anger, doubt, and love as wife and caregiver of someone dependent on her presence and support. The opening poem asks the question at the very heart of the type of passage all of us experience, for one reason or another, during our lives:
How do we get to the other side
what will it look like
when we get there, and
will we both survive
-Myles Hopper, author, My Father's Shadow
Reading Lynne Carol Austin's The Other Side, we enter the world of cancer. Written as Austin's husband is first diagnosed, we witness lives turned upside down. We watch as roles fluctuate from wife to caregiver with no regard to when or how. Pain, fatigue, anger, and tiny pieces of joy become up close and real. She asks us Is happiness always a guarded pursuit? And yet, in the last lines of the last poem, we are reminded, Understand a little light can seep under a door. In The Other Side, poems do open the door, find the light, and teach us to be more than just observers...even if only to share the journey.
-Maryann Hurtt, author, Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices and River, retired RN
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