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Winter at a Summer House
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800452
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 4 2021
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mary Beth Hines sings to us out of the staircases, back yards, and swimming pools of a life sumptuously lived, a world rife with joys and enticements, with girlhood wish and adulthood tryst. Each song lifts on the updrafts of a language passionately breathed. The poems are arrayed with such stunning craft that the art dissolves into the narrative. One forgets that one is reading and imagines that one is reliving this life. Winter at a Summer House is, in the words of one of the poems, a gift to spark remembrance, as if the memories had become our own.
Tom Daley, author of House You Cannot Reach
From birth/death and first/last words-- the poems in Mary Beth Hines's collection, Winter at a Summer House, entice us into the arc of a woman's life, and tip us into her fall from innocence into experience. The poems are dares, flirting with risk, and holding bliss and danger in a tactile bond of teeth and ice, breath and coyotes. They give us what we want from poetry: to be bundled up and awakened; to be reminded before the storm that the storm is coming. We must hold hands and walk under the shape-shifting sky of old faces--familiar, before they split/and spill, erase us.
Kelly DuMar, author of girl in tree bark, Tree of the Apple, and All These Cures
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