Thought Provoking Poets & Writers
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Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change, by Madge
McKeithen.
Why poetry? Madge McKeithen gives readers a practical application of the
necessity of poetry in an ordinary life. In the Preface she writes, "This book is not
about resolution, but about connection." Her poetry selections are "quirky," but
selected as springboards for essays detailing the many facets of a devestating
illness. Faced with confusing feelings over her son's mysterious degenerative
illness, Madge meditates on each poem and the significant meaning it held at the
moment.
It is one thing to read poetry for the shear joy of experience, but it is quite another
thing to survive emotional turmoil through words that quite often cannot be
expressed. Poetry understands: it speaks the unspoken word and resonates
precisely with those with similar experience of loss and deep changes. Blue
Peninsula is for those who are going through it from one who has been through it.
McKeithen.
Why poetry? Madge McKeithen gives readers a practical application of the
necessity of poetry in an ordinary life. In the Preface she writes, "This book is not
about resolution, but about connection." Her poetry selections are "quirky," but
selected as springboards for essays detailing the many facets of a devestating
illness. Faced with confusing feelings over her son's mysterious degenerative
illness, Madge meditates on each poem and the significant meaning it held at the
moment.
It is one thing to read poetry for the shear joy of experience, but it is quite another
thing to survive emotional turmoil through words that quite often cannot be
expressed. Poetry understands: it speaks the unspoken word and resonates
precisely with those with similar experience of loss and deep changes. Blue
Peninsula is for those who are going through it from one who has been through it.
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