The Audition digs deep: its fresh, heartfelt poems enchant, challenge, and uplift while conveying our yearning for connection and reconciliation. They explore, in three parts, Longing, Limbo, and Restoration. The poetrys driving, musical quality has an evocative urgency and is immersive with a touch of the absurd. Hopeful in tone, The Audition takes us on a journey and, with the concluding poem, Unrestored, we have both arrived and are on the way to a higher place. Influences that can be felt include poets Guillaume Apollinaire for his melodic patterns and Emily Dickinson for her elevation of the quotidian, as well as lay theologian William Stringfellows reckoning with alienation. Moses Maimonides, Dante, and Gaspara Stampa get mentions, as do John Milton, Christina Rossetti, and Aldous Huxley. The Bridge Hears recalls Paris, and The Handshake pays tribute to the poets meeting Queen Elizabeth II, while Rupture is a homage to Black Elk at Wounded Knee.
- | Author: Nancy J. Coombs
- | Publisher: Resource Publications
- | Publication Date: Mar 09, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 132 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1666763918
- | ISBN-13: 9781666763911
