Dear Mrs. Dalloway by Joyce Greenberg Lott

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At once unflinching and tender, the poems of Joyce Greenberg Lott register the whole range of poetry’s changes – from the sensual to the meditative, from the in-love-with-life to the blue stain of mortality. This book records a life and reminds the reader how much a poem can do in its seemingly small ambit. Over and over these poems do a great deal as they register true feelings in perfectly apt words.

–Baron Wormser, Maine’s Poet Laureate and the author of 6 collections of poetry. His most recent book is Teaching the Art of Poetry the Moves, with David Cappella.

 

These poems are heart-felt, heart-aching meditations on love and inevitable loss. In the face of grief the poet’s fine attention is still turned to the things of life, to what is cherished and mysterious. This is a book of sorrow that somehow also celebrates the spirit’s great renewal.

–Cynthia Huntington, New Hampshire Poet Laureate; professor of English and Director of the Program of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

 

 

 

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Dear Mrs. Dalloway

by Joyce Greenberg Lott

$14, Paper

Joyce Lott is the author of Dear Joe, a series of letters to her husband who died two months before his ninety-second birthday. She published these letters as a celebration of the continuance of life. “We live in a society that fears death,” she says. “Those of us familiar with death need to speak out about our experiences.” Lott hopes that she can start a conversation that will help others prepare for what may or may not occur in their lives.

An original member of the Cool Women Poets, Lott has been writing poetry most of her life. Finishing Line Press published two of her chapbooks, “Dear Mrs. Dalloway,” and “An Unexpected Life.” For twenty-five years, Lott worked as a high school English teacher in New Jersey and founded the creative writing program at South Brunswick High School. Heinemann published her book A Teacher’s Stories about some of these experiences. Her essays about teaching and her stories about her life have appeared in various journals and magazines. Garrison Keillor even read one of her poems on public radio.

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