Poet and editor Tom Lombardo brings together 115 poets from 15 nations with After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events. This brilliant collection bears messages of recovery to its readers from the raw beginnings to long-term acceptance, delivered through the language of poetry: Grief, War, Exile, Abuse, Divorce, Addiction, Injury, Illness, Bigotry, Loss of Innocence. After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events is filled with clarity of story, emotion, voice, music, and language, with hope that readers will find comfort, guidance, companionship, and...
Poet and editor Tom Lombardo brings together 115 poets from 15 nations with After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events. This bril...
"After Eve, who is the next woman named in the Bible?" asks editor Tom Lombardo in his Introduction. In she: robed and wordless, Lou Ella Hickman-a widely published poet and Catholic nun-invites us to listen to the words of the women in the Bible, who encountered grace and sins, joys and sorrows, life and death. With empathy and language, Hickman opens up for us what might have transpired in the minds and hearts of these women.
"After Eve, who is the next woman named in the Bible?" asks editor Tom Lombardo in his Introduction. In she: robed and wordless, Lou Ella Hickman-a w...
