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Sing to Me and I Will Hear You: The Poems
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- Sep 17, 2014
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Nine months after Francis’ death in January, 2010, Elaine was given a gift of two books of poetry by Donald Hall. In The Painted Bed and Without, he was lamenting the death of his wife. With this model of a grief-stricken poet to hearten her, poems of her own started to come.
She cried out in the first of these, “At Last” – “I could not bear the void . . .” During Francis’ last one hundred days, Elaine had written “Dear Family and Friends” letters which were posted on www.elaineandfrancis.blogspot.com Some of the poems in her first book, Sing to Me and I Will Hear You – The Poems, published in 2012, were sparked by Elaine’s memories during Francis’ last one hundred days, many of them recorded in these journal letters.
But the poems express as well, Elaine’s own experiences during the two years following Francis’ death. Many of the poems originated in prayer, or, as Elaine prefers to call it, her “sitting practice.” They offer a glimpse into the progression of her journey through grief.
Informations sur le livre
Sing to Me and I Will Hear You: The Poems
Description
Nine months after Francis’ death in January, 2010, Elaine was given a gift of two books of poetry by Donald Hall. In The Painted Bed and Without, he was lamenting the death of his wife. With this model of a grief-stricken poet to hearten her, poems of her own started to come.
She cried out in the first of these, “At Last” – “I could not bear the void . . .” During Francis’ last one hundred days, Elaine had written “Dear Family and Friends” letters which were posted on www.elaineandfrancis.blogspot.com Some of the poems in her first book, Sing to Me and I Will Hear You – The Poems, published in 2012, were sparked by Elaine’s memories during Francis’ last one hundred days, many of them recorded in these journal letters.
But the poems express as well, Elaine’s own experiences during the two years following Francis’ death. Many of the poems originated in prayer, or, as Elaine prefers to call it, her “sitting practice.” They offer a glimpse into the progression of her journey through grief.
- Éditeur:
- BookBaby
- Sortie:
- Sep 17, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781939389381
- Format:
- Livre
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Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - Elaine G. McGillicuddy
Copyright © 2012 by Elaine G. McGillicuddy
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, me- chanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the
written permission of the publisher.
Cover by Kelli Stohlmeyer, kelli@kel-i-design.com
Cover photo by Jan Born.
Elaine G. McGillicuddy
Sing to Me and I Will Hear You
Printed in the United States of America.
ISBN 978-0-9668228-8-5
Caritas Communications
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Thiensville,Wisconsin 53092
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Lovers, you who are for a while
sufficient to each other,
help me understand who we are.
Can we believe we endure?
You, however, who increase
through each other's delight,
you who ripen in each other's hands
like grapes in a vintage year:
I'm asking you
who we are.
You touch one another so reverently;
as though your caresses
could keep each place they cover
from disappearing.
As though, underneath, you could sense
that which will always exist.
So, as you embrace, you promise each other eternity.
From the Second Duino Elegy
Translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
Acknowledgements
I offer my deepest gratitude to the following: David Gawlik, my publisher - a photographer extraordinaire and longtime editor of CORPUSREPORTS, who upheld my earliest expressed wish to write Francis' and my story, yet cheered me on when it was poetry that came to me first, unexpectedly.Bill Gregory, a retired United Church of Christ minister whom Francis chose to help him with the transition
and who has given me trusted guidance and support since Francis' death. He and his wife Nancy encouraged me as a poet, before I dared apply the word to my-self.April Ossmann, poetry editor, from whom I sought a professional assessment after reading her article in Poets & Writers. Valuing the talent I hardly knew I had,
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