Second Bloom
Poems
Poiema Poetry Series
Published by: Wipf and Stock Publishers
90 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.18 in
- Paperback
- 9781532630071
- Published: September 2017
- eBook
- 9781532630088
- Published: September 2017
- Hardcover
- 9781532630095
- Published: September 2017
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In Second Bloom, Silver looks unflinchingly and honestly at the suffering of cancer, while at the same time celebrating the possibility of joy, the persistence of beauty and love, the simultaneous winnowing and comfort of faith. These poems are contemplative and often personal, but reach out to the world as a whole: from IV poles to hula hoops, from riding a roller coaster with one's son to comforting a dying friend at Christmas. The poems glean their subject matter from ordinary life, from art, from the natural world. Silver's poetry attempts to preserve the world's luminous moments and to hold grace and despair simultaneously in the human heart.