Amy Randolph teaches English/Creative Writing at Waynesurg University. She is the author of two award -winning poetry collections—Cold Angel of Mercy (Benjamin Saltman Red Hen Press) and A Particular Sorrow, a Tree (published by Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press). In addition to poetry, her passions are songwriting, singing, and digital art.
PRAISE:
Amy Randolph’s captivating The Opal Flare is a book of remembering and trying to forget, an earnest struggle to hold and release grief. These poems yearn to remember the living, while drawn to the opal flare of that “other” you: “face / a white boat drifting / on morphine seas. . . . empty face drifting, / eyes closed, / on night’s uncrossable waters.” A tender collection that believes in “small silences,” The Open Flare is about listening, both to the self and the one “lost in the tedium of dying.” Ultimately, these are love poems to those we are losing or have lost.
–Marjorie Maddox, author of Seeing Things
True to its title, Amy Randolph‘s chapbook, The Opal Flare has a subtle but fiery beauty shooting in all directions. She has written a book of grief, love and beauty. Only its size is small–everything else about it is large and wise.
–Liz Rosenberg, author of Light Gathering Poems, I Just Hope It’s Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy, and The Moonlight Palace, (a novel). .
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