In The Thaw of Day by Cynthia Good

In The Thaw of Day by Cynthia Good

$22.99

 

An occasion for celebration, Cynthia Good’s lively and enlivening new collection dazzles with lyric precision, emotional control and lucid beauty. Good’s observations about the natural world and the life of the body are delicious with detail and gritty with the wisdom of a life lived deeply and well.

–Deborah Landau, author of Skeletons  

 

Cynthia Good’s poems beautifully and roughly navigate all of life’s travails—grief, love, the body, motherhood, daughterhood. All the while, the speaker in these poems remains steadfast to life and survival. These poems are imagistic, lyrically plain spoken, and wise.

–Victoria Chang, author of The Trees Witness Everything

 

Cynthia Good’s IN THE THAW OF DAY is a book of such precision. Her close, intimate descriptions of the remembered scent of her father’s cigarettes, or caring for injured snails, or the memory that inheres in a painting is the heart of these poems. One of the poems begins “I wanted to tell you about….” and that spirit really animates this whole collection. Good wants to tell us so many things, so many of them tiny, beautifully ornate, and so many of them about her father, who haunts these poems. Without being too dogmatic, this book moves from the past to the present in a way that leaves the reader in touch with a melancholy and beautiful planet that has room, if only briefly, for everything.

–Matthew Rohrer, author of The Sky Contains the Plans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In The Thaw of Day

by Cynthia Good

Full-length, Paper

List: $22.99

979-8-88838-630-9

2024

About In the Thaw of Day

Good’s poetry collection chronicles the speaker’s escape from an abusive marriage and coming to terms with trauma experienced over the course of a lifetime, and the journey to recover while finding deep meaning and joy in the smallest things earth offers: …the ocean, sky, dirt and air, and space // between my cells… Believing it’s essential to express what burns inside us, even at the risk of ridicule, the author grapples with big questions including impermanence and why we are here, how the wind off the Seine /crawls under your scarf. The black / and white photo from the museum, / an image of Basquiat between us / tells me Basquiat is dead, / and in this photo, all of us are memory. The collection is bursting with the natural world, filled with whales and wild mushrooms, taking the reader from Paris and Mexico to Los Angeles, Atlanta and the moon. The book looks at grief following the loss of the poet’s long marriage, the death of her mother, and her father to suicide, while always finding something to be thankful for, even if it’s, the way a leaf / still shudders after the wind.

Cynthia Good is an award-winning author, journalist and former TV news anchor. She has written six books including Vaccinating Your Child, which won the Georgia Author of the Year award. She launched two magazines, Atlanta Woman and the nationally distributed PINK magazine for women in business. Good’s poems have appeared in many acclaimed publications such as Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Penman Review, Awakenings, and Terminus Magazine.

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