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Atmospheric Conditions by Jean McWilliams

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Atmospheric Conditions flows from the awareness that we are shaped by the climate in which we find ourselves –physical, emotional, and spiritual –as we meet the events and challenges of our lives.  This debut collection includes poems that celebrate family and its singular influence on our character, poems that evoke nature as teacher and inspiration, poems that call quiet attention to issues of social justice and those that explore the mysteries of aging and death. #nature # aging #family  #socialjustice #death

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Jean McWilliams spent her professional career as an educator in the Philadelphia area where she had the privilege of sharing her passion for literature and writing with students. Jean’s poetry reflects her devotion to family, nature, and issues of social justice.

 

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“In her debut collection, Jean McWilliams delineates those turbulent verities we all share: our perceptions of suffering and transcendent beauty that mark the human condition. With lyric precision, McWilliams illustrates how elements—metaphorically and actually—create us, and how, paradoxically, loss can free us.”
–Leslie Schultz, Author of Geranium Lake 
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Jean McWilliams’ moving poems in her new collection Atmospheric Conditions reveal how the poet longs for a shower that “condenses the thick humidity of hate/ into droplets of kindness.”  The world McWilliams describes is rich with the authenticity of her spiritual journey in every word.  Some poems read like meditations on subjects such as razor wire, kinds of silence, faith, and relationships. She sees into the flawed heart of things and at the same time her perceptive poems offer a blessing, “striving to mend what’s broken/making what’s separate whole.”
–Patricia O’Brien, Author of Catching Fire
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A hush of stillness permeates Jean McWilliams’s Atmospheric Conditions, delivering an “economy of gift / and grace” in poem after honest poem. Often reminiscent of Robert Frost’s work in their devotion to the natural world and clear-sighted intelligence, McWilliams’s poems venture even further—into the subterranean realms of fearless encounter with self and other, into dreaming and waking. Laced with longing, edged with wonder, her words take the world’s “daily dose of angles and edges”, take its “sins of suns” and “arid souls” and humbly transform them into “momentary monaster[ies]” where the reader finds not only much needed rest and shelter but also a shimmering of the sacred in every ordinary thing.
–Barbara Geary Truan
 

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