Some Notes You Hold: New and Selected Poems

"SOME NOTES YOU HOLD contains poetry about surviving what life throws at us as we age. The so-called "Golden Years" are so named because of the high admission price-the tremendous losses, disappointments, illnesses, and failures we all experience if we live long enough. The first part of the book, called "Letting Go," focuses on surviving deep grief; the second half, called "Holding On," explores all the roads leading to survival: playing music, prayer and meditation, deep communion with the natural world, and writing. The price paid for those "golden years" leads to the prize: insight, joy, and a kind of peace we were incapable of when we were young"--

© 2020 Madville Publishing (Ebook): 9781948692458

Release date

Ebook: October 22, 2020