I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net by Carey Link
$16.99
Carey Link’s latest book, I Walk A Frayed Tightrope Without A Safety Net is an act of raw courage. One must read, re-read, and contemplate to merit an invitation into her special world. The poems inspire us with confidence to handle our destiny and embrace truth. The poems may seem at times encrypted, but her imagery transcends personal barriers and imbues our world with strength.
–Debbie Dempsey West, -Visual Artist and Poet
Carey Link is compelling in her cryptic verse: I Walk a Tightrope Without a Safety Net. Her longing for life urges me to hold her hand, look into her eyes if not to answer her questions to be present with her and countless others who wait with baited breath for their diagnosis. After reading her words I can no longer hide behind the refuge of my microscope but am forever annexed to the crumpled pixels of her memory trickling through the hourglass of time. Brave!
–Dr. Monita Soni author of Flow through my Heart, and My Light Reflections @voracious_booklover.
“Carey Link’s new book of poems, I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net, is a journey of healing. Her poems are cryptic, mysterious, elegantly written, and often heartbreaking. Most poets are not able to accomplish what she does in such a small space, and underneath, there’s a sense of the mystical. Every line delivers. Every line sings.”
–Diane Frank, Author of While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems
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I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net
by Carey Link
$16.99, paper
978-1-64662-448-5
2021
The poetry sequence, I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net explores coping with cancer. The book ends with a poem included in the anthology Poets Speaking to Poets: Echoes and Tributes.
Carey Link lives in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2008, she graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. After developing metastatic breast cancer, she had to retire from a civil service career at Redstone Arsenal. Carey is pursing a Masters in counseling at Faulkner University. Her poems have appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Poem, Hospital Drive and elsewhere. Carey has a forthcoming chapbook from Blue Light Press and two published poetry collections, What it Means to Climb a Tree (Finishing Line Press) and Awakening to Holes in the Arc of Sun (Mule on a Ferris Wheel).
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