Kathleen Aponick's BRIGHT REALM is bright indeed with the richness of the world, "the journeying,/its unknowable end." "To read a book of poems is to engage with a sensibility: living inside a poet's head, seeing as she does, thinking as she thinks, feeling as she feels. Kathleen Aponick's poems acquaint the reader with a speaker aware simultaneously of the tactile present as experienced in the natural world, of the haunting enigmas of the ever-present past, and of the menaces of the future, both personal and public. In clear, precise language, Aponick conveys the paradox of continuity in the light of change. Her speaker feels the presence of past lives and senses the inevitable losses of the future, yet the poems beautifully remind us: 'The day's a gift with velvet moss- /covered rocks, / the clearest air, / highbush blueberries, / dragonflies, / black mushrooms, / worlds of lichens...' (from 'Interlude at Elliott Laurel'). Her book, BRIGHT REALM, is also a gift." - Joan Aleshire "The stories shaped by the poems of BRIGHT REALM issue from the real life of a person vulnerable to the loss, grief, and joy that anyone who has deeply loved other people can understand, and through their courage and clarity affirm a persistent hard-won human interconnectedness."- Michael Ryan "Kathleen Aponick has given us poems that will endure. Her lines plunge deep into the pool of memory and place. She honors the immediate and lasting history that we and our families make. The poems flow from her journey, open-ended as long as there is something in this world to see, hear, and feel. Amid trials and stresses, she locates and identifies the essential joy in our encounters with others and nature. The poems are full of river currents, ponds, forests, and clearings-and though she has lived inland for most of her life, the borderland of ocean coast looms large for the response it draws from us. Beneath the surfaces, the details, are fundamental truths about how we live and the choices we make." - Paul Marion

Bright Realm

Literature & Fiction

Aponick, Kathleen

Poetry

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