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The Poetry Apothecary
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639806416
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 3 2024
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-James Crews, author of Unlocking the Heart and Kindness Will Save the World
We have come to know Cristina M. R. Norcross's poetry as a kind of heartwork or communion. The Poetry Apothecary continues that vocation, using her gifts of language and compassion to invite disparate, divided, and isolated souls into connection. Pain, despair, illness, and grief are certainties in the experience of being human, but Norcross gently persists in showing us the small miracles that are just as much a part of the truth of our existence. This unforgettable apothecary of beauty, nature, tenderness, and creation opens our eyes and hearts to hope and healing. Norcross coaxes us to see how much the tiniest, most ordinary moments are epic, sensual, and profound-how much they look like love.
-Lorette C. Luzajic, founding editor, The Ekphrastic Review and The Mackinaw
The Poetry Apothecary is a book for those who live in the too real world of illness and sorrow, the world where lives sometimes break. These poems by Norcross love even the shards, the pain body, the sharp knife cuts of memory. Tenderly, musically, the author shares her own stories of loss and healing. Offered like a prescription, the lyrics teach us how to untie the ego, knit ourselves together, and, most importantly, how life becomes a poem. If poetry is medicine, you will find it here.
-Kimberly Blaeser, author of Ancient Light and past Wisconsin Poet Laureate
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