Kathleen Holliday

Broschiertes Buch

A Cage in Search of a Bird

Beschreibung

Sometimes tongue-in-cheek but always insightful and brimming with poetic vignettes provided by nature's gifts, Kathleen Holliday's new collection is thought provoking, wise, and rich with island imagery. Like a beachcomber of her own life, she picks up the most unassuming objects and uses the lighthouse beam of her poet's eye to show us the beauty and sadness embedded there. These poems are quieter than her previous works; a little richer with imagery and a little darker, with beautifully wrought images derived from everyday occurrences that she elevates to higher observations of our world and our understanding of it. In this age of social media, AI, and the frantic noise of news and the horrors of our world, the profound gift of Holliday's poems ring quiet and true - this collection of poems is a calm anchor that links us back to our spiritual roots. -H.M. Sanders, author of The Widowed Warlock, and Ringmaker fantasy series. A Cage in Search of a Bird presents us with human existence as translated into the lingua naturae of the non-human world. The sun and the moon and the ocean. Summer and winter. The ghost of the author's cat, reminding her of the simplicity of gratitude for what is. "I move through the day/breasting waves/toeing for certainty/swaying like kelp. More often, letting go/giving in to buoyancy" ("Learning to Swim"). In these pages you will find the tender trusting hope of a child at rest, and the experience, both universal and intimate, of grief and loneliness and death. "As if drought could ever empty it/the well of grief glimmers full/topped up like a bitter drink/we never ordered." ("August"). Here, too, there is reassurance that others have forged a path on which we may, faltering, fall back, before finding our own way forward. "There's no need then to fear/those ahead/have set the darkness echoing." ("Reading Poetry During a Power Outage"). The book ends with an invitation to connection, a call to join hands like two otters rafting against the vicissitudes of the waves. And isn't that the point of all writing-creating connection? With her spare and gorgeous poems, Holliday does just that. My recommendation: heed the invitation, leap joyfully into the spaces created by A Cage in Search of a Bird. -Shari Lane, managing editor, SHARK REEF Literary Magazine, author of Two Over Easy All Day Long

Autor

Kathleen Holliday lives on an island in the Salish Sea. Her poems have appeared in Cathexis Northwest Press, Common Ground Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Super Highway, SHARK REEF Literary Magazine, The Write Launch and other journals. She is a graduate of Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN. Her chapbooks, Putting My Ash on the Line (2020) and Boatman, Pass By (2023) were published by Finishing Line Press. For more: www.kathleenholliday.comRich with imagery, irony, and word-play, the poems of Kathleen Holliday's third chapbook, A Cage in Search of a Bird range from narrative to brief, all with startling impact. There are poems of family: If My Father Could Ask Why I Have Tattoos and death: Rounded with a Sleep. The natural world appears-though in surprising ways: Native Tongue, A Walk in the Woods; as does eros: The Final Problem, My Near-Death Experience. A long sojourn in Minnesota results in The Fifth Month of Winter. The final poem, Rafting, is a gesture toward connection in these dark times.Several of these poems first appeared in literary journals. Running in the Dark was awarded first prize in Common Ground Review's Poetry Prize 2022, and the title poem was long-listed in the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2022, judged by former U.S. poet laureate, Billy Collins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 65g
• ISBN-13: 9798888388792
• Artikelnr.: 73355875