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Wild Gardens
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639805525
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 18 2024
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Wayne-Daniel Berard, author of Art of Enlightenment and How Air Is
Wild Gardens is populated by intimate poems of address-to readers, yes, but also to the wolf's cry of metal music, to a great egret in Central Park, to Icelandic tap water, to a Tibetan singing bowl. And sometimes they inhabit, speaking as North Atlantic right whale or frankincense oil. These are poems of learning to love one's self amidst the violent vigilance of anxiety, pandemic, environmental concern, and loss. Despite diminishing glaciers and Earth swallowing its own rivers, somehow grief fails to blind me, Sara Letourneau writes, reintroducing us to a world that remains too candescent / to know how to sleep.
-Rebecca Hart Olander, author of Uncertain Acrobats
Sara Letourneau's poems express a sensibility driven by widening rings of empathy. Metalhead in a sundress, she reveals her identification with Others, ranging from Cape Cod as a conscious entity, to a predatory osprey, a dying glacier, and much more. Darkness, the toxins and dead cells of self, grief, a personal implosion in the night-all these are present as well. But in a world bursting with contradiction, compassion appears in the most unexpected places, like an anonymous love note found at a gas pump. Sympathetic vibrations greet us everywhere: wander into these Wild Gardens yourself!
-David P. Miller, author of Bend in the Stair and Sprawled Asleep
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