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Weeping in the Promised Land
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639804023
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 18 2023
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Part the autobiography of a woman in contemporary America, part social commentary, Jennifer Lagier's lyrical collection is a powerful reminder that we live in fraught times. Lagier addresses a catalogue of calamities: the insanity of guns in the United States-Nothing is Normal Here, indeed-climate change, Ukraine, the underlying patriarchy. She writes in the title poem: As America tears itself in two, / I find myself terrified, / too dispirited to mingle / despite pandemic's easing.
But there are also breathtaking pictures of nature-blackbirds, wild turkeys, the Pacific Ocean-and the acknowledgment of love that, though not loud, is life-sustaining/ Lagier writes in Unspoken At night, we fit together like lips / protecting a secret, proclaim infinite love / in intimate silence.
-Charles Rammelkamp, author of The Field of Happiness, A Magician Among the Spirits, and Transcendence
Weeping in the Promised Land is a passionate, thoughtful collection of poetry abundant in carefully detailed imagery. Powered by propulsive verbs in parallel structure and deliberate asyndeton, these poems by Jennifer Lagier bring a forceful conscience to bear on memory, politics, and art. Perspectives of experience, perseverance, and determination reveal the poet's commitment to truth in verses that reflect tenderness and fury, gratitude and strength.
-Linda Scheller, author of Fierce Light and Wind & Children
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