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THE DARKS AND THE LIGHTS IBD

FINISHING LINE PRESS
09 / 2023
9781599241456
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Sarah Stoltzfus AllenâÇÖs The Darks and the Lights imbues the ordinary-the dust rag, the laundry, the drive to work-with expressive turns of phrase, rendering the mundane and familiar in innovative ways. AllenâÇÖs narratives counter sadness and loss with myth and music. 'I canâÇÖt make any of this ethereal. / ItâÇÖs not pretty,' writes the poet, but the observations and images in these poems offer a lyrical wisdom that can only be achieved through living the ugly-beautiful of life and coming out changed on the other side.-Marianne Worthington, author of The Girl Singer, editor of Still: The JournalReading The Darks and the Lights is a journey inward-exploring the shadowy caves of fear and sorrow while also celebrating the brilliance of love and rock-hard commitment.-Joyce Moyer Hostetter, author of Blue and other BAKERS MOUNTAIN STORIESWhen I read SarahâÇÖs poetry, IâÇÖm never awash in sentimentality. Instead, IâÇÖm surprised and enchanted. I want to read again. And I want to read more.-Phyllis Miller Swartz, author of Yoder SchoolIn The Darks and the Lights Sarah Stoltzfus Allen radiates a blaze of earthy and earthly experience. Her truths move outward from a recollected fire: the lush and humble land explored and reported on as by a child, the body discovered and re-discovered by a mother. Allen brings the joy of thingness into a lyric talisman, love of whatâÇÖs rural, the reassurances of the beloved and the self talking to the self. In one of the final poems, masterful simplicity belies the levels of meaning towards the self, the child, and God: Being with you is / the start of a green, curved path. / I donâÇÖt know the end, / but holding your hand, walking / unknown places, is enough.á-Cynthia Arrieu-King, author of Continuity

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