Witness - Pittard, Shawn

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Résumé :
Grounded in a landscape of rivers, oceans, forests and dreams, Witness is an intimate and unflinching exploration of family, love, aging, dementia, caregiving and death. These poems are meditations on the changing sense of identity we experience in older age which, ultimately, reveals one's unique, intrinsic character. By caring for his declining mother, the poet is guided into his own older age and towards a better understanding of his own essential self. -------------------- The poems in Shawn Pittard's Witness offer us a world where every breath, every step could be the last, yet each also serves as revelation, a panorama, a shimmering strand in the web of connection and existence. -Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of Frangible Operas With these reflections Pittard invites us to appreciate the paradoxes raised by death-the mundane becoming the sacred...

Biographie:
In addition to Witness (The Poetry Box, 2024), Shawn Pittard is the author of two slender volumes of poetry: Standing in the River, which was the winner of Tebot Bach's 2010 Clockwise Chapbook Competition, and These Rivers from Rattlesnake Press. He's been a coach for Poetry Out Loud and a California Poet in the Schools. Shawn taught recitation and writing in middle schools and high schools, including juvenile hall (yep, they're good kids), as well as with veterans and the men in Folsom Prison. By day, he labored in the field of environmental protection, planning, and public policy, focusing on energy....

Sommaire:
Grounded in a landscape of rivers, oceans, forests and dreams, Witness is an intimate and unflinching exploration of family, love, aging, dementia, caregiving and death. These poems are meditations on the changing sense of identity we experience in older age which, ultimately, reveals one's unique, intrinsic character. By caring for his declining mother, the poet is guided into his own older age and towards a better understanding of his own essential self. -------------------- The poems in Shawn Pittard's Witness offer us a world where every breath, every step could be the last, yet each also serves as revelation, a panorama, a shimmering strand in the web of connection and existence. -Susan Kelly-DeWitt, author of Frangible Operas With these reflections Pittard invites us to appreciate the paradoxes raised by death-the mundane becoming the sacred...