The Cinder Path by Jim Garrett

The Cinder Path by Jim Garrett

$17.99

 

Jim Garrett’s The Cinder Path startles and illuminates like lightning in a quiet storm. It is a book full of fathers and mothers and sons, and the intricate, beautiful dance that carries them through this life. Here is mystery and beckoning and surprise. Garrett’s elegiac look back at his life, by turns straightforward and dream-like, reminds us that the past, as Faulkner said, is never dead. It isn’t even past. We may not become better human beings after reading The Cinder Path, but if not, the fault will be ours.

–George Bilgere is professor of English literature at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the author of eight collections of poetry, including Central Air (2022) and Cheap Motels of My Youth (2024).

 

 

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The Cinder Path

by Jim Garrett

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979-8-88838-769-6

2024

The poems in The Cinder Path are quiet journeys down illuminating paths that look back in time to memories of beaches and baseball and forward in time to realities of illness and aging. Whether as boyhood adventures, family tales, or adult wanderings, these poems begin at endings of paths and end at beginnings of new paths, but each journey in The Cinder Path sets out in search of the right path for living between a lost past and an unknown future with the hope of finding love.

Jim Garrett has taught literature and writing for more than forty years. The Cinder Path (2024) is Jim Garrett’s fourth poetry chapbook published by Finishing Line Press.

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