Indigo Hours
Healing Haiku
Published on 16. October 2023
Book
Hardback
104 pages
978-1-57869-143-2 (ISBN)
Description
2024 Silver Winner, Poetry, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Award
Indigo Hours is a lyrical, profound, and playful book of haiku poems with original scratchboard drawings from an artist thrust into the role of care partner after her husband's diagnosis of "likely Alzheimer's."
Artist and author Nancy Stone took life for granted-until she was thrust into the unchosen role of caregiver for her spouse of fifty years. Her husband's decline has changed every aspect of their relationship-except their love. In poems that show the change of emotions along with insights for coping with loss and grief and the metaphor found in nature-water, light and shadow-Stone breaks down the silence and stigma associated with dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, and offers a calming guide for others dealing with the devastation and exhaustion of caregiving. Her poems and art offer glimmers of gratitude, courage, and resilience for moving forward with love in your heart during challenging times.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
425 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57869-143-2 (9781578691432)
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Person
Nancy Stone is an award winning painter and book artist who taught art at Williston Central School, Vermont Commons School, and Community College of Vermont. Her paintings, mixed media works, and handmade books reflect playful experimentation and imagination. She is a member of the Northern Vermont Artists Association (NVAA) and a Signature Member of the Vermont Watercolor Society (VWS). She co-founded, and is a member of, the Book Arts Guild of Vermont (BAG). She was art program director of Children's Art Exchange (USA/USSR) and art teacher for Vermont's chapter of Kids4Peace International where she taught Muslim, Christian and Jewish children from Palestine, Israel, and the USA. Stone is the author of "251 Vermont Vistas," a book of her watercolor paintings documenting visits to each of Vermont's 251 towns; the original painted 'postcards' are in the University of Vermont's Special Collection. She and her husband Ken were married in 1965; they currently reside in Williston. Visit her website to learn more: nancystone.weebly.com.