ME AND HER SHADOW by Christine R. Lund

ME AND HER SHADOW by Christine R. Lund

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$14.99

 

“Once you read Me and Her Shadow, you are never going to forget it.  This is a stunning book of a mother trying to understand her twenty-three year old daughter’s death.  The poet works and works, trying to understand the nature of grief.  There is such a deep sense of loss, but also, remarkably, of tenderness.  Grace asserts itself in the discovery of an old jar of colored pencils.  In a riot of Monarch butterflies, in a ride on her father’s army jeep on Kaja’s birthday, in a pumpkin laid on her grave on the Day of the dead.  Read it.  Keep it.  Go back to it.  It’s quite the treasure.”

–James Magnuson is a novelist, author of nine novels, and former director of the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.

 

 

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ME AND HER SHADOW

by Christine R. Lund

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-327-3

2020

ME AND HER SHADOW tells the story of the author’s journey of healing after the death of her daughter.  The poems also celebrate her lost daughter’s life, through memories and some of her possessions.  The author connects to her child through them, and through being out in nature.  She sees her daughter first in butterflies, then in crows.  While sensing her daughter’s presence in her heart, she comes to believe that spirit survives death.  Yet there remains a poignancy to this loss.  As she says at the end of her poem, Becoming A Healer, “…and while it feels like betrayal, healing has occurred.”  Sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting, these poems are lyrical and honest, shared in the hopes of helping others who are experiencing loss—and everyone who feels love.

Christine R. Lund is a poet and writer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  ME AND HER SHADOW is her first chapbook of poems to be published.   Each of these poems lights in some way on her daughter, Kaja, who died at age 23.   This tribute and elegy is the story of a mother and daughter, shaped as a musical drama, with poems in place of songs.  A self-portrait of Kaja appears on the cover.  Christine’s poetry has been published in The Denver Post, The Hungry Poet’s Cookbook and The New Poets’ Anthology, among other publications.  Her travel articles and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Albuquerque Journal and Endless Vacation magazine.

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