firecracker RED - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

As if guided by William Matthews's 'Love needs to be set alight again and again', Stellasue Lee struggles throughout 'firecracker RED' to center the heart, and teach it to penetrate the living fog that envelopes her after the death of her daughter Jillian, whose car 'flew from the highway into the afterlife.' The moving collection details the journey from a place that is broken beyond repair to a world where there is hope, light, love. These poems teach us we must live with closure that death brings but that we must stay open to moments of communion and embrace rather than be swallowed by dailiness. As the 'caretaker of small things,' Lee reminds us that we must 'savor quiet time on the morning porch,' the 'call of a raggedy old mockingbird,' and the 'taste of sweet lime juice in hot tea.' Overcoming a difficult childhood where she lived in a state of 'frightened loneliness' with a mother who drank and a father haunted by WWII, Lee leads us through the 'slickrock maze of daily living.' At times she is even playful, 'putting a catnip mouse in the bath tub so her cat, Kaylee, could slip, paw, tumble and chase it all about.' With the knowledge that no one survives the hold of love, Lee shows the risk inherent in daring to love at any age, teaching us that we must allow the heart to have its voice, to savor life and 'drown in gratitude at still being alive.' These moving and compassionate poems create a bridge between life and death we all will cross. Concluding, 'Better to gather eel grass or ostrich eggs,' than to despair, in firecracker RED, Stellasue Lee confronts grief and the terrors of this world but does not allow them to cause her to forget the world s ravishing beauty. This powerful collection of poems set squarely in the earth teaches us how to persevere. Vivian Shipley, Editor of the Connecticut Review

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.