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About the Book

The stark beauty of the winter tree is a strong metaphor for this collection of contemporary poems that explores the themes of aging, divorce, cancer, and loss with raw honesty; yet also celebrates the elegance and healing we find in the natural world.

About the Author :
Shirley Van Cleef Sullivan has been a trail cook in the Rockies, a student of French clowning, and a classical singer. She has studied the work of Carl Jung for more than 20 years and is a leader with the Guild for Sacred Studies. She was an editor of HeartLodge, and a participant in Braided Lives, a collaboration between painters and poets. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including Pilgrimage, Psychological Perspectives, Tiger's Eye, and Sow's Ear. A New Englander by birth, she has lived in Colorado most of her adult life.

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Shirley Sullivan's Find Praise for January works its way toward a remarkable proclamation and a final freedom. "I have lived a whole life," Sullivan writes, "out of obscurity and distance / defined by division and separation." The pain and suffering of that life-a journey through divorce, breast cancer, and the trials of aging-is rendered in poems that are at once bracing and empathic. Viewing a shattered tree, Sullivan feels into both its brokenness and strength: "Now I am a truncated / silhouette leaning / into the sunrise. Still / I stand tall and wear / my broken wing / with pride." And from the wound of separation, from the depths of winter, a new resolve emerges to embrace the fragility of life and to accept what is: "Today I will go out, undefended. / There will be no more wanting." These poems bear the marks of a hard-won wisdom and grace. --John Brehm, author of Help Is on the Way In Shirley Sullivan's collection of poems, Find Praise for January, she exposes us to the raw and tender core of this wintry month with breathtaking honesty and piercing imagery. The poignancy of lines like "the river of you slips into backwater" will break your heart, only to mend it again with humor and determination: "Needs a new transmission, he said, wielder/ of microsurgical wonders, casually putting my ear/ in the shop like the old Chevy it was." This book is bound to help you find praise for January, the capacity of the human spirit, and for this fine poet. --Martha Kalin, author of Afterlife and Mango Shirley Sullivan's poetry sings strong and clear, the hallmark of a voice shaped by the wisdom of years. In Find Praise for January, we encounter a poet who both lives and grieves fully, who embraces her tender, heartbreaking life with reflective depth: "Who knows what you have failed to grasp," Sullivan muses, pondering a recent cancer diagnosis. "Is it the cat curled at your shoulder in bed / . . . .or roses drying to cream dipped in crimson?" Here is a skilled poet who walks gracefully ahead of us on our shared human journey: to find praise for January. --Joy Roulier Sawyer, author of Tongues of Men and Angels and Lifeguards


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781733988704
  • Publisher: Bookbar Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bookbar Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 93 gr
  • ISBN-10: 173398870X
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jan 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Poems
  • Width: 127 mm


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