Eve’s Lament by Heather Corbally Bryant

“With her previous book, “My Wedding Dress,” Heather Corbally Bryant emerged as a significant contemporary poet chronicling her year’s passage through a searing divorce.  Now with “Eve’s Lament” she continues her chronicle of a woman who as yet is not herself, passing through the phases of the life that we all encounter in one way or another.  Echoes of the masters–Stevens, Auden, even Einstein–surround the voice of a contemporary woman busy creating her own self.”

–George Bornstein, Patrides Professor of Literature, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)

Having had the pleasure of reading two previous collections of HeathernBryant’s poetry, “Compass Rose” and “My Wedding Dress” I was brought to “ Eve’s Lament” with excitement. In these poems  Bryant continues her journey of self-discovery with a rare insight, not only of her own life but that of her readers.

In these poems we find solace, peace and a profound understanding that while suffering will always be part of life, the ordinary day can and does bring its own

joy. In language that is clear and accessible, our presence “ is simply required, expected” and above all noticed. Bryant attends to the needs of those around her and to the natural world, without ever losing sight of continuing to navigate a way to the self in order to survive life with its joys and sorrows.

–Joan McBreen, Connemara, Ireland, 14-2-2017