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And When The Sun Drops 2nd Edition by Connie Post

$15.99

 

Post’s latest collection, “And When the Sun Drops,” will touch the hearts of families living with autism and reach into the hearts of those not living with autism. Keep a box of tissues at hand for poems like “Autistic Son, Almost 19,” in which she writes, “A Sunday in October is over / You won’t be home again until Thanksgiving.” In the same poem, you’ll understand a mother’s love when you read, “your shirt is on inside out / I leave it that way.” Post’s focus on everyday living is what brings this collection together, what makes readers become involved, and what makes them angry when she writes, “how do I tell you / that there is bigotry in the world / hidden in neighborhoods / with white doors / and narrow streets” in “A Letter in the Newspaper.” The poem “To a Hero Twelve Miles Away” introduces readers to the group home care provider who “let me call / as many times as I needed,” and even though the mother “didn’t know what pajamas / you would choose,” she knew she “could trust you / to see the complexities of its shadows.” Don’t worry about crying over each page. There is much to celebrate in this collection. Post’s writing is clear, her images strong and always just right, as they must be.”

–Trina Drotar, Sacramento Press 

 

Sacramento Press Review

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Rating:  ***** [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

Anyone familiar with autism knows that it consists of a devastating spectrum of developmental disorders that affect a child’s ability to learn, communicate and socialize. Connie Post‘s And When the Sun Drops relates the tale of one mother’s experience of her son’s autism. In “By the Window,” the speaker addresses her son about “…the dawning of other worlds / of prisms that would take you from us / that would take language from you”. Post’s poems are focused, direct and unyielding. Her language expresses strong sentiment, but never descends into sentimentality, allowing the reader to feel authentic emotions. I shed more than a few tears over these beautifully wrought, honest poems. This collection is for anyone who desires to, as Post puts it, “…make an origami out of / any shape of loss / and make it somehow / feel like gratitude”.

–Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of A New Red Publisher of Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series

 

In compellingly candid and essential language evoking emotion or exhibiting experience, Connie Post‘s poetry supplies necessary words describing the relationship with her autistic and speechless son, engaging readers who accompany them on their journey down “the long curve of silence.”

–Edward Byrne, Editor, Valparaiso Poetry Review

 

 

 

 

And When The Sun Drops 2nd Edition 

by Connie Post

WINNER of the American Legacy Award for a Chapbook.

$15.99, paper

979-8-88838-056-7

2022

Connie Post served as first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Comstock Review, One, The American Journal of Poetry, Cold Mountain Review, Slipstream, The Pedestal Magazine, Spillway, River Styx, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verse Daily. Her first full length Book “Floodwater” (Glass Lyre Press) won the 2014 Lyrebird Award. Her poetry awards include the Liakoura Award, and the Crab Creek Poetry Award.  Her most  book “Prime Meridian” (Glass Lyre Press)  was released in January 2020 and was a distinguished favorite in the Independent Press Awards.

Connie Post is a San Francisco Bay Area Poet who has been writing and publishing for over twenty five years. Her work has received praise from Al Young, Ursula LeGuin, Ellen Bass, Maxine Chernoff and former US Poet Laureate Juan Herrera.

Her first full length collection “Floodwater” was the winner of the 2014 Lyrebird Award from Glass Lyre Press.

Her second full length collection “Prime Meridian” was just released in January of 2020. (Glass Lyre Press) Prime Meridian was a finalist in the 2020 Best Book Awards and the American Fiction Awards. (American Book Fest)

She has two chapbooks from Finishing Line Press “And When The Sun Drops” and “Trip Wires”. Her other books include “Waking State” (Small Poetry Press) and 2 other self-published books about parenting a son with autism

Connie Post’s poetry has been published widely, including the following publications

Apparatus Magazine, Adanna, The Aurorean , Arsenic Lobster, Blood Root Literary Magazine, Blue Fifth Review, Barnwood International, Big Muddy, Calyx, Comstock Review, Cold Mountain Review, Chiron Review, Chabot Literary Review, Crab Creek Review, Copperfield Review, Caesura, Clackamas Literary Review Carquinez Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Convergence, DMQ Review, Dogwood, Glint, Iodine Poetry Journal, I 70 Review, Italian Americana, Karamu, Kalliope, Kentucky Review, Lindenwood Review, Main Street Rag, Monterey Poetry Review, Mid West Poetry Review, Mobius, Oberon, Palooka, Pirene’s Fountain, Psychic Meatloaf, One (Jacar Press) Prick of the Spindle, Porter Gulch Review, Poemeleon, RiverSedge, Rise up Review, Slipstream, Song of the San Joaquin, Snail Mail Review, Spillway, Spoon River Poetry Review, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Toronto Quarterly, The Dirty Napkin, Timber Creek Review The Tule Review, The Pedestal Magazine, The Great American Poetry Show, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Up the Stair Case Literary Review, West Trestle Review, Untitled Country Review, White Pelican Review, Third Wednesday Two Bridges Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Verse Daily.

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