Echoes and Links: poems - Paperback

by Shirley Glubka (Author)

These are vivid, seriously crafted poems culled from decades of work by a writer entering her seventies. Whimsical, personal, meditative, abstract, lyrical, narrative; the accessible and the difficult; the short and the long: here is a cornucopia, echoing and linking as it spills into the reader's lap. From the author's preface: "There are many of us: we write for decades, take extreme care, produce good work--even work that is unique--and do not become 'known.' I think of us as the invisible portion of the iceberg, the large and necessary base. Without us no one would see those jagged overpowering white peaks of ice, those mind-altering and suitably famous works of poetry. Sometimes we, the invisible, thrust ourselves upward--out of the water, into bright air--for a moment. Here is my moment. It began when I turned seventy..." "This morning I was thinking about your poetry, which reminds me of extremely fine and strong filaments of tensile steel." Christina Diebold, poet and friend of the author

Author Biography

Shirley Glubka is the author of Green Surprise of Passion: Writings of a Trauma Therapist; and All the Difference: poems of unconventional motherhood; and Return to a Meadow, a novel. She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1942. She is a retired psychotherapist and lives in Prospect, Maine with her spouse, Virginia Holmes.