Broken - Pitman, Cynthia

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Biographie:
Cynthia Pitman, author of poetry collections The White Room, Blood Orange, and Breathe, has been published in Bright Flash Review, Amethyst Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Literary Yard, Boats Against the Current, Third Wednesday (One Sentence Poem finalist), Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art (Pushcart Prize nominee), and others, and in anthologies Pain and Renewal, Brought to Sight & Swept Away, Nothing Divine Dies, and What is All This Sweet Work?...

Sommaire:
This is Cynthia Pitman's fourth book of poetry: Broken is a collection of free-verse poems addressing different topics: the nature of art and beauty, the fragility and resilience of the self, the connection to nature -- its saving grace as well as its fierce destructiveness, the sense of the spiritual and the sublime, the effects of mental illness and the possibility of hope in the face of it, the lure of the magical and fantastical, the joy of the mundane, the simple peace of home and hearth, the approach of the end of life, and other topics....