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~ Judith Prest
In the Geography of Loss, Judith Prest reminds us “Sometimes it takes /a dark day/ for me to find/ my own light”, as she maps those departures folks both must endure and overcome as best they can. Great aunts, both parents, a beloved dead grandmother whose spatula goes missing and creates an absence memory fills. Despite death’s “discordant notes,” we go on these poems say, it is what we do as human beings, until even “Beneath the now, outlines of ghost trees stand sentinel, bear witness.”
Sean Thomas Dougherty, author of The Second O of Sorrow
Judith’s poems are close to the bone, earthy, organic. As they acknowledge grief, loss, suffering, they elevate and transform it. From coal, comes the diamond. From loss comes the light.
Jan Phillips, Author, Speaker, Artist and Activist
Author of No Ordinary Time, Creativity Unzipped, The Art of Original Thinking, Divining the Body, Marry Your Muse,
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