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being from being broke open by Marcia Casey

Name: being from being broke open by Marcia Casey
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With this book I can see it: Poetry’s destiny is here realized in the visceral apprehension of light and water, sensation and vital being. It takes these poems to break open my fossil solitudes and bring me living into the realm of wild being…by the ‘anchor of abandon.’ Human feeling is given structure, deftly hewn, and inevitable loss given ritual, so fragments may heal.

–Kim Stafford, author of As the Sky Begins to Change

This collection of poems moved me more than any I have read. Immersed in its simple and profound lines, I begin to understand at a deep level many things at once: what it is like to be a sea anemone, the vast power of the ocean, and the sorrow and love that penetrate our lives. These poems will break open not only the wild world of the anemone, but the equally unfathomable human heart. I am a better human being, having read this book.

–Susan Marsh, poet and author of This Earth Has Been Too Generous and Passings

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being from being broke open

by Marcia Casey

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being from being broke open ruminates on the crucial questions of being human: Beyond family, where do we belong? What is “home”? Who are we? How do we live? How do we go on living? From a childhood in which home felt like shame and woods were haven, the natural world – trees, birds, seasons, water, mud – offered up the language these poems use to navigate them. In each poem, sensory experience opens, petal by petal, to reveal inherent depth and meaning. Yet, each clinched circle of understanding inevitably ruptures, springs open when new experiences shake us up – or break us. What will save us is love, and the common thread of being rooted in matter as an integral part of the rampant spiral of evolution. We are broken open into new meanings and new horizons. And if, at times, we find ourselves caught in something we cannot grasp, or make sense of, or live with, these poems show us we can still bow to and trust “the unfathomable / cavern in the hold” by which “the whole / took shape” – and go on. #poetry #humanity #rooted #longing #spiral #evolution #love

Marcia Casey has an MFA from Goddard College. She lives on the Oregon Coast with her dog Zoë and co-edits a local Episcopal creative arts publication called The Labyrinth.