And When the Sun Drops - Softcover

Post, Connie

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798888380567

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2022

Synopsis

Anyone familiar with autism knows that it consists of a devastating spectrum of developmental disorders that affect a child's ability to learn, communicate and socialize. Connie Post's And When the Sun Drops relates the tale of one mother's experience of her son's autism. In "By the Window," the speaker addresses her son about "...the dawning of other worlds / of prisms that would take you from us / that would take language from you". Post's poems are focused, direct and unyielding. Her language expresses strong sentiment, but never descends into sentimentality, allowing the reader to feel authentic emotions. I shed more than a few tears over these beautifully wrought, honest poems. This collection is for anyone who desires to, as Post puts it, "...make an origami out of / any shape of loss / and make it somehow / feel like gratitude".

-Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of A New Red, Publisher of Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series

In compellingly candid and essential language evoking emotion or exhibiting experience, Connie Post's poetry supplies necessary words describing the relationship with her autistic and speechless son, engaging readers who accompany them on their journey down "the long curve of silence."

-Edward Byrne, Editor, Valparaiso Poetry Review

About this title

About the Author

Connie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Comstock Review, One, The American Journal of Poetry, Cold Mountain Review, Slipstream, The Pedestal Magazine, Spillway, River Styx, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verse Daily. Her first full length Book Floodwater (Glass Lyre Press) won the 2014 Lyrebird Award. Her poetry awards include the Liakoura Award, and the Crab Creek Poetry Award. Her most book Prime Meridian (Glass Lyre Press) was released in January 2020 and was a distinguished favorite in the Independent Press Awards.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798888380567
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 46