
It's This
Laura Foley(Author)
Fernwood Press
Published on 18. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
102 pages
978-1-59498-103-6 (ISBN)
Description
It's This contemplates relationships, identity, love, loss, and radical transformation, finding acceptance, joy, and growing peace, as the speaker practices meditation, and falls more deeply in love with her wife.
Employing spare, musical language and humor, and suffused with light, these vivid poems flash back to the speaker's past, as they practice empathy and compassion in the present - for self and others, across political aisles, and species. Learning to accept mortality in losing loved ones and chaplaining hospice patients, she increasingly appreciates what presence has to teach, in the woods of nature and relationships: everything we seek is already in us, in each shining moment we allow ourselves to focus wholly on everything present, the hologram of this, which is the universe, "this field of snow, where I sit alone/on a hilltop, until I think of nothing, / but light - light on snow, light/prisming ice, light on light, on light."
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
140 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59498-103-6 (9781594981036)
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Laura Foley is the author of seven full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. Why I Never Finished My Dissertation received a starred Kirkus Review, an Eric Hoffer Award, and was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award from Jacar Press. She has won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, The Common Good Books Poetry Prize, the Bisexual Book Award, Atlanta Review's Grand Prize and others. Her work has been included in many journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, DMQ Review, JAMA, Poetry Society London, Atlanta Review, Poetry of Presence, The Wonder of Small Things, and How to Love the World. Her poems have been featured frequently on The Writer's Almanac. She lives with her wife, Clara Giménez, and their two romping canines on the steep banks of the Connecticut River in New Hampshire.