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Hold Still

Terry Godbey

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Description:Although there is heartbreak as Terry Godbey traces the narrative arc of illness in her fourth poetry collection, "Hold Still," there is also plenty of hope and even humor. She found she could not put down her pen, even at her frailest, and she needed to explore the boundaries of fear, discomfort and mortality through the prism of language. Words were the one thing she could control. "Terry Godbey’s 'Hold Still' finds its center of gravity in the poet’s experience with breast cancer. These finely made poems trace the narrative arc of illness – moving from the shock of diagnosis through treatment to the aftermath of survival, 'everything alive,/ even hope.' Keenly aware that there is 'much to measure' in this world, Godbey reminds us that one of poetry’s highest purposes is to revise trauma, and in her lines, 'find what will save' us. -- Claudia Emerson"In Hold Still, Terry Godbey surpasses all her previous prize-winning volumes, and we deepen with her in our reading of these poems. My favorite is her denunciation of the color pink in all its emanations, be they well-intended or hypocritical. Godbey’s poems, many of them about her battle with breast cancer, take us to the Infra-Red-Ultra-Violet Antipodes where the greatest works of literature reside and abide. There is no going back from them." –- Gerald Locklin"We are counseled in Godbey’s new book of poems to 'Hold Still,' to slow ourselves and read through an account of experiences both harrowing and disturbingly common, distilled in such ironically poignant phrases as 'bald is the new black,' and what she does for serious illness she also does for motherhood, and further back, surviving her coming of age in the barrier islands. These poems end with 'everything alive,/even hope,' but it is a hope forged in fire and cooled in wisdom." -- Carolyn ForchéWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hold Still. To get started finding Hold Still, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 73

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Main Street Rag

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1599484501

Description: Although there is heartbreak as Terry Godbey traces the narrative arc of illness in her fourth poetry collection, "Hold Still," there is also plenty of hope and even humor. She found she could not put down her pen, even at her frailest, and she needed to explore the boundaries of fear, discomfort and mortality through the prism of language. Words were the one thing she could control. "Terry Godbey’s 'Hold Still' finds its center of gravity in the poet’s experience with breast cancer. These finely made poems trace the narrative arc of illness – moving from the shock of diagnosis through treatment to the aftermath of survival, 'everything alive,/ even hope.' Keenly aware that there is 'much to measure' in this world, Godbey reminds us that one of poetry’s highest purposes is to revise trauma, and in her lines, 'find what will save' us. -- Claudia Emerson"In Hold Still, Terry Godbey surpasses all her previous prize-winning volumes, and we deepen with her in our reading of these poems. My favorite is her denunciation of the color pink in all its emanations, be they well-intended or hypocritical. Godbey’s poems, many of them about her battle with breast cancer, take us to the Infra-Red-Ultra-Violet Antipodes where the greatest works of literature reside and abide. There is no going back from them." –- Gerald Locklin"We are counseled in Godbey’s new book of poems to 'Hold Still,' to slow ourselves and read through an account of experiences both harrowing and disturbingly common, distilled in such ironically poignant phrases as 'bald is the new black,' and what she does for serious illness she also does for motherhood, and further back, surviving her coming of age in the barrier islands. These poems end with 'everything alive,/even hope,' but it is a hope forged in fire and cooled in wisdom." -- Carolyn ForchéWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hold Still. To get started finding Hold Still, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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