What We Do with Our Hands by Cynthia Good

$14.99

 

“I have been waiting for a collection from Cynthia Good. And here it is! So exciting.”

–Camille T. Dungy, author of Trophic Cascade

 

“Cynthia Good‘s debut chapbook, What We Do with Our Hands, is a shimmering map of vulnerability and resilience. Like human antennae, the speaker here is exquisitely tuned to love and its disappointments, to the eros of the material world and its impermanence. Good’s is a world where ‘the rocks bear witness to our brevity’ and still ‘The music kept coming—like tomorrow.’”

–Catherine Barnett, author of Human Hours, The Game of Boxes, and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced

 

“Cynthia Good’s poems cut straight to the bone, not with a machete or dull-edged sword, but with a scalpel and deft hand like only the best poets can do. These poems are alive with well-earned grit. Every line is brimming with what it means to be alive in the grandest sense of the word—these poems say, ‘I lived through this, and you can too.’”

–Travis Denton, author of When Pianos Fall From the Sky and My Stunt Double

 

 

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What We Do with Our Hands

by Cynthia Good

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-928-2

2022

What We Do with Our Hands chronicles a five-week period in the speaker’s life where she buries her mother, finds herself unexpectedly headed for divorce following a long marriage, and is kicked out of her home. The poems reflect a life racing out of control in real time, and the hard-fought journey to regain some sense of order. Many of the poems in this collection are in response to, or in conversation with suffering, and coming to terms with shame, anxiety, denial—and the initial failure to live the life the speaker wanted. What We Do with Our Hands is a tangible place where suffering can coexist with the almost unendurable beauty that is life.

Cynthia Good is an award-winning author, journalist and former TV news anchor. She has written six books including Vaccinating Your Child, which won the Georgia Author of the Year award. She launched two magazines, Atlanta Woman and the nationally distributed PINK magazine for women in business. Good’s poems have appeared in many acclaimed publications such as Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Penman Review, Awakenings, and Terminus Magazine.

 

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