It's This - Softcover

Foley, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594981035 ISBN 13: 9781594981036

Publisher: Fernwood Press, 2023

Synopsis

It's This contemplates relationships, identity, love, loss, and radical transformation, finding acceptance, joy, and growing peace, as the speaker practices meditation, and falls more deeply in love with her wife.

Employing spare, musical language and humor, and suffused with light, these vivid poems flash back to the speaker's past, as they practice empathy and compassion in the present - for self and others, across political aisles, and species. Learning to accept mortality in losing loved ones and chaplaining hospice patients, she increasingly appreciates what presence has to teach, in the woods of nature and relationships: everything we seek is already in us, in each shining moment we allow ourselves to focus wholly on everything present, the hologram of this, which is the universe, "this field of snow, where I sit alone/on a hilltop, until I think of nothing, / but light - light on snow, light/prisming ice, light on light, on light."

About this title

About the Author

The author of eight previous poetry collections, Laura Foley has won numerous awards, and national recognition-her poems read frequently on The Writer's Almanac; appearing in American Life in Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Poetry Society London, Crannog Magazine and many others, and included in anthologies such as: Poetry of Presence, How to Love the World, and Roads Taken. Many of her poems have been turned into songs and performed in venues around the country, including Carnegie Hall and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Laura lives with her wife, Clara Gimenez, and their two romping canines, among the hills of Vermont.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fernwood Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594981035
• ISBN 13: 9781594981036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102