Glenna Cook

Broschiertes Buch

Thresholds

Beschreibung

"Readers of the book Thresholds will experience what Glenna Cook calls 'the good purpose,' the intention of poems meaningfully conflicted between fierce moments and tender moments that compose a life. In all her wisdom and experience, she still struggles to answer questions about love, devotion, loneliness and 'this grandeur of the universe.' These carefully constructed poems share childhood pains and shames. Like any poet, Cook plays subordinate to language: 'I'm sorry/about my words./I try to keep them in/behind their white picket fence,/but they get out when I least expect it.'" -Allen Braden, author of A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood: Poems "Glenna Cook's debut poetry collection explores the family photo album as a threshold of narratives, memories, secrets, wishes, silences-and absences. From a 1940s childhood and a mother pregnant with the knowledge of her child's Downs Syndrome; to an adulthood elegy for a brother who died before she was born; to a poignant sequence entitled Wake to December (in part, exploring her son's death from cancer), Cook is unafraid of life's refrain of pain and sorrow. Yet, despite the exploration of death and loss-the collection's abiding refrain is faith: faith in the redemptive power of love, joy, and above all-hope. These poems are love poems of endurance and survival, which seek to answer the question: how do we find a language for what leaves us wordless?" -Rommi Smith, poet and playwright

Autor

Like Joy is Glenna Cook's third full-length collection of poems, all published by MoonPath Press. The first is Thresholds (2017), a finalist for the Washington State Book Award for Poetry in 2018. The second is Shapes of Time (2022).Cook grew up in Olympia, Washington, where, at age 18, she married her husband, Kenneth. They had 3 children (their oldest, a son, died of cancer in 2016 at age 60), and she has9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. After a 25-year career with the telephone company, she retired from US West Communications in 1990, then immediately enrolled in college. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound, Magna cum Laude in 1994 at age 58, with a BA in English Literature. While at university, she won the Hearst Essay Prize for the Humanities and the Nixeon Civille Handy Prize in poetry. She is a Hedgebrook alumna and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She has read her poetry many places in the Puget Sound region, and published dozens of poems in journals and anthologies, the latest being This Light Called Darkness, a Raven Chroniclesanthology (2023), and When a Woman Tells the Truth: Writings and Creative Work by Women Over 80, edited by Dena Taylor and Wilma Marcus Chandler (2024). Her husband died in 2018, after 63 years of marriage. Cook has Parkinson's disease, which she keeps at bay with medicine, diet, and a rigorous exercise program. She serves as an advocate for others with Parkinson's disease. She loves reading, watching PBS and Netflix, taking walks, and interacting with people. Two of her favorite sayings are: We make our own weather, and (fromRumi) What you seek is seeking you.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MoonPath Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781936657285
• ISBN-10: 1936657287
• Artikelnr.: 48622932