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This Edge of Rain
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800490
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Nov 6 2021
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tom Plante, Editor of Exit 13 Magazine
Jane Ebihara has written an exquisite book of poetry, one filled with both a poignant nostalgia and determined, open-hearted anticipation. We are invited into memories of the poet's childhood and childbirth, hard reckonings with widowhood and loss. Loved ones appear under her insightful eye through changing seasons of the year and of her own life. While regrets are acknowledged, so are the saving powers of the pen and words. These are moving, beautifully rendered poems that will stay with you long after the book is closed.
Donna Baier Stein, Publisher of Tiferet Journal
The poignant poems in Jane Ebihara's collection, This Edge of Rain, immediately engage the reader. Heartfelt, powerful, and well-rendered, they touch upon love, loss, and survival. She gifts us with unforgettable lines and images: you left me in autumn / you have never left me / both will always be so, she writes of her husband. Of aging she says ...winter nears-exposes a view of the horizon summer conceals. In Two Moments, an expectant child ...kicks.../ pulses toward her fingers / splayed wide in warm embrace. And, in Aubade, an old woman...craves /...kinship with the living...hungers.../ for morning / then morning again.
These poems linger. We are the richer for them.
Wanda S. Praisner, Recipient of the 2017 New Jersey Poets Prize
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