Betsy Warland's NEW Site...
“Only This Blue is a non-nostalgic dynamic ‘of never the same’ which links life to life and traverses us as a precious rediscovery of meaning in which ‘The body breathes the poem breathes the page.’ A book of colours brought back to beauty and meaning, which stays with us as an embrace.” - Nicole Brossard
“These are delicate poems, tentative traceries of a body porous as ‘water... air... leaf’ against infinite blue, intimations of mortality shot through with the fear of ‘not knowing, not knowing’ the prognosis, the outcome, of sudden illness, infused with the tangible grief of dappled light on sidewalks, blossoms of ‘pink-studded grass,’ the beautiful mortality of the breathing earth. ‘Poetry may be the closest in language we come to the sacred,’ writes Warland in her remarkable poetic essay that ends this book, culled from her deep poetic encounter with the known/unknown, ‘the lineage pulsing within us.’ An important new work, breathing strength and spiritual clarity into the uncertainties of our time.” - Di Brandt
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