<p>Donna Pucciani's fifth collection of poems, Hanging Like Hope on the Equinox, explores the strength and fragility of life and moves through journeys both geographic and spiritual. With the power of strong personal voice, Pucciani details seasonal images which convey the harshness of winter and the promise of spring's resurrection. The reader becomes traveler, through illness, surgery, aging and dying, from small towns in the north of Spain to the Ferris wheel at Chicago's Navy Pier. The poet is fearless in her juxtaposition of love and grief, witnessing the human spirit in relentless confrontation with adversity. In the final poem, the graces of the present moment emerge in "little fireflies of dreams... a letter from an old friend...meteors with their long hair flying." The writer leaves us "hanging like hope on the equinox," making peace with the inevitable change of seasons, seeing a vision of a world half-lit, half-dark, and choosing the light.</p>

Hanging Like Hope on the Equinox

Literature & Fiction

Pucciani, Donna

Poetry

Virtual Artists Collective

<p>To Sip Darjeeling at Dawn, by Donna Pucciani, is an intriguing poetic journey through diverse existential moments: returning to the city of one&#8217;s youth, playing a musical instrument, waiting for lightning, mourning a parent, anticipating one&#8217;s own death.  Her objects of meditation include a vase from Copenhagen, an English summer day, strawberries and frogs, old lovers and new affairs, gardens and cats, gumbo and fugues, a husband who snores. Whether in a Manhattan art gallery or an old amusement park in New Orleans, Pucciani reveals intimate moments of her own life while inviting the reader to share in those moments. Her poetry, which has been published on four continents and translated into Italian and Chinese, invokes universal themes of love and loss, nostalgia and grief, and the joys of the present moment. More importantly, her poems explore the human condition with depth, sensitivity and compassion.</p>

To Sip Darjeeling at Dawn

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Hanging Like Hope on the Equinox

To Sip Darjeeling at Dawn