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Witness
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781956285772
Publisher: Poetry Box
Published: Dec 15 2024
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Grounded in a landscape of rivers, oceans, forests and dreams, Witness is an intimate and unflinching exploration of family, love, aging, dementia, caregiving and death. These poems are meditations on the changing sense of identity we experience in older age which, ultimately, reveals one's unique, intrinsic character. By caring for his declining mother, the poet is guided into his own older age and towards a better understanding of his own essential self.
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The poems in Shawn Pittard's Witness offer us a world where every breath, every step could be the last, yet each also serves as revelation, a panorama, a shimmering strand in the web of connection and existence.
-Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of Frangible Operas
With these reflections Pittard invites us to appreciate the paradoxes raised by death-the mundane becoming the sacred; the losses, a gift; mortality AND joy.
-Molly DenBoer Stuart, facilitator, Conversations About Death programs
It is a work of beautifully assembled words shaped around gratitude and respect. It is a book of sharing. ... Deeply personal. A reflection. A celebration- Shawn opens the door and welcomes you to come inside.
-Danyen Powell, facilitator, The Sacramento Poetry Center's Tuesday Night Poetry Workshop
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