In the Garden of Absence

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By Stella Pierides
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Published: Dec. 09, 2012
Words: 2,539 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9783944155012


Short description

Stella Pierides' collection of poetry/haiku "In the Garden of Absence" takes you on a journey echoing the author's childhood. Yet it does so in the context of adult concerns, uncertainties, and anxieties—as well as pleasures. This book explores the existential fear of loneliness, the many facets of absence, and glimpses a path towards bearing absence and being creatively alone.

Extended description

Stella Pierides' collection of poetry/haiku "In the Garden of Absence" takes you on a journey echoing the author's childhood. Yet it does so in the context of adult concerns, uncertainties, and anxieties—as well as pleasures. This book explores the existential fear of loneliness, the many facets of absence, and glimpses a path towards bearing absence and being creatively alone.

Michael Dylan Welch, in his afterword to the collection, "Presence in Absence," writes:

"Readers of any book of poetry can assume that each poem has substantial personal meaning for the writer. The poems in this collection go one step further, offering personal meaning to the reader. Stella Pierides pays attention in simple ways (and sometimes vast ways) to her surrounding world, noticing the warmth of a hen's eggs on Mother's Day, that only a dog makes eye contact on a crowded train, or in observing the tiny dark holes in a pin cushion as she extracts its pins."

Tags

poetry, haiku, poetry book, senryu, absence, short verse, poetry nature, attention, haiku poetry, poetry for women, haiku book, poetry awareness, poetry short, haiku collection, aloneness, poetry by women, poetry about self discovery, micropoetry, nahaiwrimo, small stones

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Review by: hermann mueller on Dec. 22, 2012 : star star star star star
An excellent, sensitively conceived collection.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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