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This Passage: Poems
“This is the most powerful and personal collection of poetry I have ever read,” remarked Tom Spence, author of Observations and One Hundred Poems.
“A book of our time,” asserted Veronica Golos, author of GIRL (winner, International Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry, Beirut, Lebanon), and Vocabulary of Silence (winner, New Mexico Poetry Award).
The poems in this collection reflect the realities of happiness, strength, and love, as well as cumulative disabilities, death, grief—and a passage to healing. This book blends Humanity with Poetry, both of which the poet believes are essential to life.
Deering has won numerous poetry awards, including the Wyoming Arts Council Poetry Fellowship.
From the poem Monsoon:
“You spoke of your slight limp,
crippled arm, problematic breathing.
I was drawn
to your sense of humor, energy,
your large-as-living smile…”
Her first book, Havoc & Poems of the Inland West, was published by Sastrugi Press, 2018.
“A book of our time,” asserted Veronica Golos, author of GIRL (winner, International Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry, Beirut, Lebanon), and Vocabulary of Silence (winner, New Mexico Poetry Award).
The poems in this collection reflect the realities of happiness, strength, and love, as well as cumulative disabilities, death, grief—and a passage to healing. This book blends Humanity with Poetry, both of which the poet believes are essential to life.
Deering has won numerous poetry awards, including the Wyoming Arts Council Poetry Fellowship.
From the poem Monsoon:
“You spoke of your slight limp,
crippled arm, problematic breathing.
I was drawn
to your sense of humor, energy,
your large-as-living smile…”
Her first book, Havoc & Poems of the Inland West, was published by Sastrugi Press, 2018.
94 pages, Paperback
Published August 7, 2024
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October 29, 2024
The poems within This Passage by Carol Deering explore the depths of love, life, and heartache in a delicate and beautiful way. You get wrapped up in the language as Carol skillfully slips you into a memory of the life she lived with her late husband. Her poems also highlight the inadequacy of handicap accessibility even in places that boast of their establishment's accessibility. Another fantastic collection from Carol, as her first collection Havoc & Solace was also beautiful. A few of my favorite poems from This Passage are "Nero Wolfe & the Curtain That Must be Obeyed," "Inside Grief," and "Every Window of My Marrow."
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