first poems after the stroke
Shanan Ballam
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first poems after the stroke

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"Then it was over: that which you fear, being/ a soul and unable/ to speak;" these lines by Louise Glück might serve to suggest the power of Shanan Ballam's luminous first poems after the stroke-language as the soul's release, healing energy driving these poems of damage and recovery. Her observant gaze turns always outward to nature: its unfolding, its flowering, the way things turn toward light-nature's transformations assuring her own: "I am a monarch/butterfly who will emerge/ with wet wings jeweled/with dew..." -Eleanor Wilner author of Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems 1975-2017 A...