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-M. L. Liebler, Detroit Poet, Professor and Editor of RESPECT: Poets on Detroit Music
There is little sentimentality in this courageous collection that asks, Why doesn't Hallmark/ have a dysfunctional daddy series? Sedman filters memory through a lens at once distancing and intimate. She delivers the hard particulars of physical and psychological abuse with an engaging voice. It's an important narrative that needs to be told. This well-crafted collection is a gift to the many who've suffered at the hands of others. Here the past paves a road to a future where you are not alone. You'll find yourself rooting for the poet, and for women everywhere.
-Diane DeCillis, author of When The Heart Needs a Stunt Double
Denise Sedman's collection of poetry, The Past Isn't Done with Me Yet, feels familiar and in a few strokes of words she brings us to our knees emotionally. In one of my favorite poems the father lies dying at his house, in "The Jamaican Woman Zigzags a Broom Behind the Corpse to Make Sure the Spirit Leaves Along with the Body." A photo of the father as an altar boy is flung and smashed on the floor. His daughter finds a broom to spirit away the shards. Sedman's poems are personal and their short lyrical verses echo loudly. From these poems we learn what it is to be human.
-Russell Thorburn, author of Somewhere We'll Leave the World
Author: Denise Sedman
ISBN-10: 163980417X
ISBN-13: 9781639804177
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2023
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d
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