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Vol. 89 — Numinous Stones | |||
by Holly Lyn Walrath![]() From Elgin Award winning author Holly Lyn Walrath, a haunting collection of poetry about grief and the sacred that digs deep beyond a fairytale world into the grave. Told in the circular pantoum form, Numinous Stones is a poetic graveyard littered with horror—from sentient scarecrows to silent skeletons to scorched sacred spaces. As each line repeats, new meaning gleams like bones unearthed in a shattered realm of monsters, dark forests, and dusty ghosts. “Walrath poetically constructs tombstones (what is poetry if not
construction?) imbued with a sacred, powerful, and majestic presence
that both attracts and terrifies. They are sacred tombstones that
serve the poet, and we will see this in the reading of her texts to
celebrate, mourn, cry out, and, finally, accept her father’s
death…. The collected poems constitute a journey, a slow path that we
could also define as a slow coming to consciousness. A becoming aware
of a pain to be understood and experienced to be, finally, accepted.”
ISBN: 978-1-61976-244-2 (13 digit)
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