Mary Willette Hughes

Broschiertes Buch

The Shadow Loom Poems

Beschreibung

In The Shadow Loom Poems Mary Hughes traces a full, generous lifethe memory of her poet-mother at the end of a long day speaking her poems into the dark, young love, the sorrows and joys of a large family, the rich harvest years both welcomed and resisted. These poems are personal, even intimate, but the precise, sensual language gives every reader a place to stand that is both familiar and surprisingly new. Family, friends, and an ecstatic celebration of the natural world are at the heart of this book, but Hughes faces bravely the many kinds of violence that mar our waning and love-tethered world. But in The Shadow Loom Poems pain never has the last word. These poems are, in Hughess words, pilgrims of hope, sent out into a dangerous but dearly loved world. Mara Faulkner, O.S.B. author of Going Blind: A Memoir, finalist for the 2010 Minnesota Book Award.

Autor

Mary Willette Hughes, married to Mark, is a musician, teacher, poet, mother of seven, grandmother of twenty-two, and great-grandmother of three. She has had two books of poetry published, Quilt Pieces and Flight On New Wings. During the last ten years she has worked part-time for the St. Cloud Hospital's Recovery Plus program for addiction/recovery as a facilitator of poetry therapy and has given numerous presentations about poetry as therapy both locally and at national venues. In 2010 the National Association of Poetry Therapy presented her with a Public Service Award for her work at Recovery Plus. She has received two monetary Individual Artist Awards for her poetry, which were granted by the Central Minnesota Arts Board, the first in 1998, and again in 2010. She also received the Mother Benedicta Riepp Award from the Monastery of St. Benedict in 2010 for "exemplifying Benedictine and Gospel values" in her life. It wasn't until 1989, after their children were on their own that she discovered the world of writing poetry at age fifty-eight. After careers as a music teacher and working as an instructor for eighteen years at the Family Life Bureau in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a new vocation arrived. Poetry writing entered her world bringing a new passion and zest to her life as she attended creative writing classes and worked at learning how to write, to speak, and to sing in this new voice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: North Star Press of St. Cloud
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780878394036
• ISBN-10: 0878394036
• Artikelnr.: 35563013