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By Diana Brantley

A publication of 50 poems written through the writer over a time span of thirty years. each one poem is followed via a poem observe that gives a few context.

From the advent to the e-book (in the author's voice):

"A instructing lifetime of greater than thirty years has given me the boon of closeness to nice poetry. interpreting and explaining the works of others to the youngsters of others intended that I repeated incantatory phrases until eventually they turned my approach of seeing the realm. Then, whilst my very own traces started to come to me, my target, notwithstanding no longer unavoidably the outcome, used to be a mixture of compression and inevitability. As i've got written each one of those strains, whether or not they got here to me in a flash (“Non-swimmers”) or took a while of remodeling (“Egypt”), i've got aimed toward that blend. you need to be the pass judgement on of even if i discovered success.
Many of those poems communicate of my huge and quirky nuclear family (“Proper Nouns”). a number of touch upon what have been present occasions after they have been written (“Diana’s Hands”). Others begun with a picture that caught within the mind and tossed approximately until eventually the poem got here (“Ruins”). a number of are planned ruminations on teasing questions (“Gender Specifics”).
Nevertheless, they seem the following in alphabetical order, which appeared greater someway than chronology or subject, for supplying a diverse plate. i am hoping there are surprises right here. i'm hoping there's familiarity of speech or scene, to boot. i am hoping you get pleasure from reading."

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