Breach by Bridget Gage-Dixon

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Harrowing and beautifully written, Breach offers us a life in poems, a series of affecting essences that speak to the often unspeakable. Bridget Gage-Dixon is a relentless truth-seeker whose deft metaphors enhance the sense of how our struggles may teach us—assuming we survive them. Perhaps the truest solace the poet may offer is transformative testimony, language that forges authentic connections. The woman in these pages is that poet, someone who has come through to what she calls in the final poem–”That Invincible Summer.”

–Baron Wormser

 

The poems in Bridget Gage-Dixon’s Breach have a dark, thrilling intensity that will stay with you long after you’ve read them. Birth itself is a betrayal, and childhood a period when you are only “safe as long as you are unseen.” Epiphanies are tinged with menace, as though early trauma has pushed the imagination into the realm of the visionary. And yet, as this haunting book “leads us into the uncharted territories of ourselves,” a yearning for beauty and redemption steers it toward a faith that “what has been riven must rise.”

–Jeffrey Harrison

 

Bridget Gage-Dixon‘s poems gathered in Breach, although capacious and broad in scope, cut to the quick: the quick of the heart, the mind, the human spirit. She shares Thomas Hardy’s sensibility of tenderhearted ironic realism, if one can imagine a twenty-first century, urbanized American incarnation. The speaker, and those she addresses, sometimes in letters, sometimes directly, are survivors (or not) of sexual abuse, physical violence, suicide attempts, cutting, addictions, and ineffectual, when not malicious, mental health treatments.  But Gage-Dixon’s intense subject matters are but one layer of what works in these fierce, radiant poems: insight, compression, singular metaphor, exacting details, beautifully-turned lines, offered to us by one whose unflinching yet compassionate gaze is refreshing and often breathtaking.  When such poems arises in one who has beheld the worst and lived to transcend, even sanctify, its lessons, we owe it to ourselves to take in the sacramental wine. 
–Gray Jacobik, author of The Banquet: New & Selected Poems, and Eleanor
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Breach

by Bridget Gage-Dixon

$14.99, paper

979-8-88838-021-5

2022

Bridget Gage-Dixon has had a life-long love affair with poetry that began with rewriting nursery rhymes and fairytales. She progressed to having her poems included in Poet Lore, Inkwell, The Cortland Review, and several other journals. She lives in New Jersey where she teaches and dotes on her grandchildren.

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