The intimate and also highly generalizable poems in Source Notes: Seventh Decade revolve around two core questions: "If everything we said to define ourselves/was preceded by Just like everyone or/ Like most of us, what would shift/in the life-long construction project/we call our self?" and "Who says age can't be luxurious, /astonishing, sui generis?" The poems in the collection move from public events to highly personal ones, both past and present, and explore creativity, the sweetness of age, the joys of marriage, early trauma, motherhood, family relationships, the surprising resonances of travel and the mysteries of savoring in place. Within and between poems patterns appear, disappear, transform, new stories, without noticing come into being, teaching us again and again "we are never too old for rebirth, the hold of the miraculous." Intriguing photographs amplify the text.
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978-1-7324514-8-3 (9781732451483)
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Heather Tosteson is the author of two earlier poetry collections, The Sanctity of the Moment: Poems from Four Decades and Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English, as well as several works of fiction and non-fiction. She is the recipient of fellowships in poetry, fiction, and photography from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Hambidge Center for the Arts as well as a Discovery/The Nation poetry prize. A co-founder of Wising Up Press, she has co-edited and illustrated sixteen Wising Up Anthologies. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and PhD in English and Creative Writing from Ohio University.
