{"product_id":"the-quickening-light-paperback","title":"The Quickening Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJune Blumenson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quickening Light, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e you find reverence and meditation, also hunger and\u003cbr\u003ehard truth. Blumenson's subjects range from the natural world to solitude to family, \u003cbr\u003eto the challenges of war and loss and the shiftings of the body. All this explored with\u003cbr\u003ea fine eye for both praise and mourning, and a quest to open up the hidden, to \"honor\u003cbr\u003ethe empty spaces like wolves that keep a place in the circle for those who are gone.\"\u003cbr\u003eShe tells it like it is, shoots us to the stars and delivers a heart that enlarges our world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Diane Jarvenpa, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way She Told Her Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlumenson expands the familiar aphorism-where you look determines what\u003cbr\u003eyou see-in her title poem, \"It's a matter\/of how I choose to see\/the world in the\u003cbr\u003equickening light.\" These intimate poems invite the reader in as she dances the tango;\u003cbr\u003eembraces womanhood; and walks through the woods \"stealing apples.\" Readers will\u003cbr\u003ebe prompted to consider similar \"sights.\" Be ready for your own quickening.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Ted Bowman, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wind Blows, The Ice Breaks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quickening Light, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eJune Blumenson's collection of new poems, is written with\u003cbr\u003e\"a love that sometimes walks on water....\" There's a hardness in her work that is\u003cbr\u003estrengthened, paradoxically, by a plaintive aura as well as humor....\" in a world's\u003cbr\u003e\"unquenchable appetite for sorrow.\" Would that we all could express our lives as\u003cbr\u003eintimately and artfully. \"I want to go on\/forever like a comet of light...,\" Blumenson\u003cbr\u003ewrites. The poems offer this comet to us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Sharon Chmielarz, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeaking in Riddles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Blumenson's exquisite second collection of poems, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quickening Light, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewe make\u003cbr\u003eour \"solitary way\" through a \"world at large.\" Exiled from \"the delicious garden,\"\u003cbr\u003ethere is an urgency in these poems to reconcile our \"imperfect world.\" \"Ask me if I would\u003cbr\u003edo everything again?\" she writes and tells us, \"...I have shed\/enough tears to wash me\u003cbr\u003eout\/beyond the sea somewhere\/and burst the seams of life again.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Tim Nolan, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42126103675015,"sku":"9781639802616","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/53ddf3c26156e0cab978e8bab95e9652.webp?v=1732581124","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-quickening-light-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}