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Itzhak Perlman's Broken String: Poems (Evening Street Press Chapbooks)

Jacqueline Jules

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Description:Winner, Helen Kay Chapbook Prize 2016What plucks at the heart strings of Jacqueline Jules’ intense poems of Itzhak Perlman’s Broken String is a dialectic between faith and loss where science mediates. “Both Science and Faith insist/ nothing is random.” Grief is a squatter—an unwantedpresence after friends and family leave the bereaved. The poet dares to challenge Jean-Paul Sartre on despair and suggests to the physical therapist “better to tease a tiger/ than poke a pain.” Everything Emily Dickinson, vending machines, a gypsy girl with rocks in her pockets who steps into a river. This is a smart and smarting journey through the human condition. —Karren L. Alenier, author of The Anima of Paul BowlesIn the apocryphal story told about Yitzhak Perlman during his concert at Lincoln Center in 1995 when one of the four violinstrings suddenly tore, and he proceeded to reconceive and play the entire work with three remaining strings, he said that “sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can make with what you have left.” If ever there were a work that explores the aftermath of loss, it is this powerful and highly original collection by Jacqueline Jules. “Every life is lived on a high wire,/ strung over the treetops…//Don’t expect to feel safe.” The poet reminds us not to waste time grieving over “stolen credit cards” and a “broken car on the day of a big interview.” Reminds us how “Joy sits on a seesaw with Grief.” If it’s divinity we seek, best we gather the “stone tablets” and carry them through the wilderness of time. Consolation can be “sunlight/streaming through/serrated shapes…like fingers” that “wipe” away “tears.” —Myra Sklarew, Author of New & Selected PoemsThis lovely and moving collection explores what happens when grief is chronic. After the shock of initial loss, when griefbecomes a daily companion, we must learn, as Jacqueline Jules wisely writes, to find music in our crippled instruments. LikeJean-Paul Sartre, we “cross that cruel river”; like Isaac Newton, our personal math proves “we are vulnerable to falling objects.” —Kim Roberts, founding editor of Beltway Poetry QuarterlyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Itzhak Perlman's Broken String: Poems (Evening Street Press Chapbooks). To get started finding Itzhak Perlman's Broken String: Poems (Evening Street Press Chapbooks), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Winner, Helen Kay Chapbook Prize 2016What plucks at the heart strings of Jacqueline Jules’ intense poems of Itzhak Perlman’s Broken String is a dialectic between faith and loss where science mediates. “Both Science and Faith insist/ nothing is random.” Grief is a squatter—an unwantedpresence after friends and family leave the bereaved. The poet dares to challenge Jean-Paul Sartre on despair and suggests to the physical therapist “better to tease a tiger/ than poke a pain.” Everything Emily Dickinson, vending machines, a gypsy girl with rocks in her pockets who steps into a river. This is a smart and smarting journey through the human condition. —Karren L. Alenier, author of The Anima of Paul BowlesIn the apocryphal story told about Yitzhak Perlman during his concert at Lincoln Center in 1995 when one of the four violinstrings suddenly tore, and he proceeded to reconceive and play the entire work with three remaining strings, he said that “sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can make with what you have left.” If ever there were a work that explores the aftermath of loss, it is this powerful and highly original collection by Jacqueline Jules. “Every life is lived on a high wire,/ strung over the treetops…//Don’t expect to feel safe.” The poet reminds us not to waste time grieving over “stolen credit cards” and a “broken car on the day of a big interview.” Reminds us how “Joy sits on a seesaw with Grief.” If it’s divinity we seek, best we gather the “stone tablets” and carry them through the wilderness of time. Consolation can be “sunlight/streaming through/serrated shapes…like fingers” that “wipe” away “tears.” —Myra Sklarew, Author of New & Selected PoemsThis lovely and moving collection explores what happens when grief is chronic. After the shock of initial loss, when griefbecomes a daily companion, we must learn, as Jacqueline Jules wisely writes, to find music in our crippled instruments. LikeJean-Paul Sartre, we “cross that cruel river”; like Isaac Newton, our personal math proves “we are vulnerable to falling objects.” —Kim Roberts, founding editor of Beltway Poetry QuarterlyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Itzhak Perlman's Broken String: Poems (Evening Street Press Chapbooks). To get started finding Itzhak Perlman's Broken String: Poems (Evening Street Press Chapbooks), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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