Valediction
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Paul Éluard writes, "There is another world and it is in this one." Within these worlds, we travel outward and inward, straddling our lives' oppositions: parental/relationship struggle and loss, home and away, isolation and reconnection, the spiritual/mystical realm and physicality-always balancing grief and reemergence, hello and goodbye. The hybrid nature of Linda Parsons' sixth collection, Valediction, with poems, diptychs, and micro essays, brings those oppositions into focus and reconciliation and grounds her in the earth under her feet, especially in her gardening meditations. In this striving, we are balanced and grounded with her as she lifts the veil on what it means to live and create fully, even in the face of impermanence.
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I
3 Light Around Trees in Morning
4 Airing It Out
5 Visitation: Necessary
6 Between Dog and Wolf
7 A Woman Dreams a Cow in Her Dining Room
8 Valediction
9 April Wish
10 House Spirit
11 Visitation: October
12 October Foot Washing
13 Visitation: Rising
14 Dust to Dust
15 Come Home
16 All Night, All Day
17 My Angels Speak in Dreams, on the Radio, at the Railroad Crossing
18 Visitation: Bright
II
21 Everywhere and Nowhere at Once
22 Garden Medicine
23 Visitation: Winged
24 Overtaken
26 Black Widow
27 Broken, Not Shattered
29 Visitation: Hungry
30 Waiting
31 Visitation: Figs
32 Golden Girl, Old Town Prague
34 Visitation: Porch
35 Worry Stone
36 Visitation: Havana
37 Instead
38 Visitation: Frost
III
41 Night Guard
42 Putting Him On
43 August, Still
44 Rooted
45 The Hissing of Knoxville Lawns
46 Roy G Biv
47 Visitation: Conjunction
48 Recipe for Troubled Times
49 My Daughter Says Basket
50 Visitation: Mother
51 Speaking So Loud Without Words
52 Princess Slip
53 Visitation: Princess
54 Checkers with My Granddaughter
55 The Motherhouse Road
56 How Soft the Earth
57 Arias to the Bees
58 Unhinged
IV
61 Why I Write About Eggs
62 My Mother's Feet
63 From a Distance
64 Travels with My Father
65 The Malecón
66 My Father and Fidel
67 Romeo y Julieta
68 Elegant Decay
69 Home, Not Home
70 Visitation: White
71 Glimmer Trail
72 Many Mansions
73 Visitation: Light
74 Believe
76 Acknowledgments
79 About the Author
