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Dreaming During the Advent of Rain is at once heartbreaking and uplifting, elegiac and joyous. Meticulously crafted and filled with startling images, Wood’s poems teach us—through her deeply personal and profound lyrics—
about our own lives, dreams, love, beauty, and loss—this is what the best poetry does, after all— “bells ringing everywhere.”
–Julia Johnson, author of Subsidence
Laura Juliet Wood weaves an elegant and lyrically engaging account of a nearly overwhelming constellation of life events, including her husband’s terminal illness, eventual demise, and the birth of her daughter. The finely crafted poems collected in Dreaming During the Advent of Rain are deeply affecting—a galaxy of feelings, colors and textures—though never woeful and reveal a subtlety of mind and delicacy of spirit with a reason to go on.
–Philip Alvaré
With unflinching attention and indelible insight, Laura Juliet Wood addresses head-on the full spectrum of grief to grace at the heart of our lives. In language both quotidian and extraordinary, she places these poems on the page like little gift boxes asking to be reached into. Open one. Lift out its treasure. Slip on its mantle of redemption.
–M. Howard, author of Uncertainty Principle
Dreaming During the Advent of Rain
by Laura Juliet Wood
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-223-8
2020
Laura Juliet Wood, M.F.A. Columbia University and mother of three, divides her time between San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Pensacola, Florida. She is author of the chapbook All Hands Lost. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Hollins Critic and The West Marin Review among others. She teaches for The San Miguel Writers’ Conference and at The Pensacola Cultural Center.
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