Ellen Aronofsky Cole

Wow! This was a book of brave poetry from a local poet who tackled being a cancer patient and other difficult topics with talent and aplomb. It brought me back mentally to the days I myself was a cancer patient as well as the years I spent in nursing working on two different cancer units. This was a very emotional read for me.

The poems in this collection were excellent. They were a window into the life and soul of the author who shares pictures, but only with words, of her family and moments of anguish in her life. Many images within the poems of this book were hauntingly familiar to me (burning house, White Album, kiss the Torah, cicadas, Celtic ballads, Wellbutrin, ICU, Rosh Hashanah, cutting, Baltimore, hearing aid, marched for peace, Suburban Hospital, Starbucks coffee, mimosa trees, DC). Had this poet been in and out of my own life? It felt that way. It was this eerie familiarity which made me dig deep into each poem of this special collection. I was at the edge of tears at times. Sometimes, my tears fell.

More interesting. How did this book get to me? Was it dropped into my Little Free Library by the poet herself who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland? I’ll never know.

I’d so love to save this book, but more than that, I would like others to read this poetry. It is so moving and beautiful.… (lisätietoja)