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The Present Abandoned - by Harriet Shenkman (Paperback)

The Present Abandoned - by  Harriet Shenkman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"...these are poems that arise from necessity, that are informed by a fierce intelligence and a willingness to look at everything exactly as it is, and then to filter that through music and wit and a realistic and also open-to-the-emotional lens. It's the kind of poetry that makes me feel like my life is better for having read it, that someone has handed me a way to live through life's eventualities." </p><p><strong>--Laura Kasischke</strong>, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, acclaimed </p><p>poet and author of <em>Where Now, New and Selected Poems.</em></p><p> </p><p>"Here in these pages, the steady gaze of the unconditional. Here, jazz, Modigliani, cupcakes, Greenwich Village, and a room in a dementia unit are the swirls inside a hamsa. The hamsa--the hand of a wife and a lifetime of memory. <em>The Present Abandoned</em> is fearless in its exploration of what it means to love: "We may have to go down/our separate paths and not be terrified."</p><p><strong>--Tamra Carraher</strong>, editor of <em>Alexandria Quarterly</em></p><p> </p><p>"In this finely-honed, poetic journey through the heart of love and dementia, Harriet Shenkman shares naked truths with bravery, humor, frustration and graceful acceptance."</p><p><strong>--Ellaraine Lockie</strong>, award-winning poet, LILIPOH Poetry Editor</p><br>

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