Thresholds
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936657287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 215 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In all her wisdom and experience, she still struggles to answer questions about love, devotion, loneliness and 'this grandeur of the universe.' These carefully constructed poems share childhood pains and shames. "Readers of the book Thresholds will experience what Glenna Cook calls 'the good purpose, ' the intention of poems meaningfully conflicted between fierce moments and tender moments that compose a life. Like any poet, Cook plays subordinate to language: 'I'm sorry/about my words./I try to keep them in/behind their white picket fence, /but they get out when I least expect it.'" --Allen Braden, author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood: Poems
In 1990, she retired as training manager at U.S. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi. While at U.P.S., she won the Hearst Essay Prize for the Humanities, and the Nixeon Civille Handy Prize for Poetry. In 2014, she was granted a residency at Hedgebrook, where she wrote some of the poems for this book. Born in 1936, part of the "between" generation, who tends to see both sides, she is a Christian who feels kinship with other religions, a pacifist with sympathies for those who go to war, a
In all her wisdom and experience, she still struggles to answer questions about love, devotion, loneliness and 'this grandeur of the universe.' These carefully constructed poems share childhood pains and shames. These poems are love poems of endurance and survival, which seek to answer the question: how do we find a language for what leaves us wordless?" --Rommi Smith, poet and playwright. From a 1940s childhood and a mother pregnant with the knowledge of her child's Downs Syndrome; to an adulthood elegy for a brother who died before she was born; to a poignant sequence entitled Wake to December (in part, exploring her son's death from cancer), Cook is unafraid of life's refrain of pain and sorrow. "Readers of the book Thresholds will experience what Glenna Cook calls 'the good purpose, ' the intention of poems meaningfully conflicted between fierce moments and tender moments that c