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DHARMA’S DANCE by Christine Poythress

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Christine Poythress‘s poems in her debut chapbook, Dharma’s Dance, are a delightful mix of the ethereal, the mystical and the witty. Indeed, her work is truly unique, and I for one will look forward to anything she writes in the future, as I imagine will be her many, many  readers to come.

–Rosemary Daniell, award-winning author of The Murderous Sky: Poems of Madness and Mercy, and nine other books of poetry and prose.

 

“The speaker as ingenue who pockets concrete wisdom from illusory love affairs, as vibrant, artistic woman and mother who grows to find the generational hand-me-downs of family precious, as wiser-woman looking back, Dharma’s Dance is a recursive moving closer to the place where the soul resides – the poet says, “This life, the only one we perceive, isn’t everything, so I believe” – to a grounding in the eternal.  I finish the book feeling the emerging of a deep and soul-searching self, individuated yet continuous with life and its beyond, and am moved to remember lines from The Song of Amergin: “I am a wonder among flowers…I am a breaker threatening doom…I am a hill where poets walk…I am the tomb of every hope.”

–Steven Croft, author of At Home with the Dreamlike Earth

 

At once ethereal and weighty, Dharma’s Dance journeys a surprisingly wide terrain. It begins with sparkling yet often sad or sly reminiscences of free-loving youth in the 1960s, gradually deepening to the patina of age in the new millennium, that first mourns then rises again to amused joy. This is a collection of rich poems from a richly lived life.

–Ujjvala Bagal Rahn, finalist 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize; runner-up 2021 William Wisdom – William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition

 

 

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DHARMA’S DANCE

by Christine Poythress

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In Dharma’s Dance, Christine Poythress‘s debut collection, she traces her journey in search of love or a Mr. Right from the repressive South to her free-loving twenties in 1970s California, and to New York, culminating with the wisdom of age and a sense of where the soul resides. Or as Poythress writes, “This life, the only one we perceive, isn’t everything, so I believe.” This New Age collection is at once serious, filled with wit, and grounded in the mystical.

Christine Poythress grew up singing in church, school, and with her mama. She left the South in pursuit of a music career, and while in California, she began journaling and scribbling poems in the margins of her drawings. She was a folkie until she discovered opera, which propelled her to New York where she studied by day and was a singing waitress by night. In 1979 and 1980, she was a National Anthem Guest Soloist, at Madison Square Garden, for the New York Knicks and Rangers. After moving back to the South, she sang on the southeastern club and hotel circuit performing a combination of jazz standards, top forties, pop, and country music. In 1993, she returned to college and classical singing, becoming a frequent recitalist at universities and a soloist with regional orchestras. Since 2014, she has studied creative writing with award-winning author, Rosemary Daniell and has focused on writing poetry, memoir, and essays. Her work has appeared in Quillkeepers Press, Tangled Locks Journal and Synchronized Chaos.

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