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-Grey Held, author of WORKaDAY
There is a tender ability in The Yellow Sweater to peer into the fabric of the people from whom the author has knitted her life. Margot Wizansky captures her parent's marriage, the complexity of their relationship, her father's battle with heart disease, her mother's later dementia. She is unblinking in telling secrets kept by loved ones and her own. She writes of reckless young love, and later her abiding love story. She reveals over four precisely crafted sections of narrative verse, life and death, and even the first gynecological exam. This full-bodied book even depicts the poet's near death and exalted life: "every day, the rapture of birds, / sunset approaching in red velvet shoes."
-Eileen Cleary, Editor of Lily Poetry Review Books and author of 2 a.m. with Keats
Margot Wizansky's The Yellow Sweater is a song of love in all its forms. Like the titles poem's "Yellow Sweater," Wizansky's vision of love is warm and erotic, comforting and vibrant. From poems that reckon with the abrupt loss of her beloved father and the later slow fading of her mother, Wizansky creates "one long piece that [doesn't] ever break" leading into poems inspired by a lifetime of loving people and the stunning beauty of the world despite the risks that can rend us from our beloveds. These poems invite readers to celebrate human connections and, as Wizansky exhorts in her "Epithalamium for Meghan and Ben," to "Cast [ourselves] to love."
-Elizabeth Sylvia, author of None but Witches
Author: Margot Wizansky
ISBN-10: 1639804102
ISBN-13: 9781639804108
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2023
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d
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