Second Bloom av Anya Krugovoy Silver

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In Second Bloom, Silver looks unflinchingly and honestly at the suffering of cancer, while at the same time celebrating the possibility of joy, the persistence of beauty and love, the simultaneous winnowing and comfort of faith. These poems are contemplative and often personal, but reach out to the world as a whole: from IV poles to hula hoops, from riding a roller coaster with one''s son to comforting a dying friend at Christmas. The poems glean their subject matter from ordinary life, from art, from the natural world. Silver''s poetry attempts to preserve the world''s luminous moments and to hold grace and despair simultaneously in the human heart.""At the heart of these new poems is a longstanding determination to make the most of time, and of mind, and of the immediate surround--whether that immediacy is comprised of grief, or of joy, or of perplexity. The deep, bass note here is attend! The developing hunger is holiness.""--Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems