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Laura Schulkind‘s work radiates intelligence, compassion and a nuanced understanding of what it means to be a daughter, a mother and a friend. She’s a fearless truth-teller, shining the light of her poetic language on details we well might have missed otherwise–the small, miraculous moments of discovery, heartbreak and redemption.
–Barbara Quick, Author of Vivaldi’s Virgins
Laura Schulkind’s new book, The Long Arc of Grief addresses the sorrow of loss and even the anxiety and sorrow of impending loss. But also present in these well-crafted and touching poems is great affection and devotion, and a wonderful generosity of spirit which lift the poems and the reader up. “Searching for Geronimo” ends with a line “my heart both broken and healed,” and that’s how I felt when I finished this beautiful collection, broken by the references to illness and death which reminded me of the deaths of my own parents, but also moved, buoyed up and healed by the poet’s resilience, and by her warm and courageous embrace of life, of connection, and of love.
–Rafaella Del Bourgo, Author of I Am Not Kissing You, and Inexplicable Business: Poems Domestic and Wild.
Laura Schulkind’s newest collection of poems The Long Arc of Grief dazzles in the scope of life experiences she shares. In the telling of these stories she uses seemingly inconsequential details to capture the moments when our hearts are pierced by misfortune. In “Dirty Money”, it’s the soda vending machine that keeps spitting out the dollar bill as she waits to hear what she already knows–that she’s losing the baby. In “The Pedicure”, it’s the bottles of polish, “spread out like little pots of sherbet,” that instantly transported me to the room where her mother is painting her toes as a child. Through these poems, she creates windows into the losses we all face. Yet, ultimately, Laura’s poems reassure, showing us that no matter what comes our way, we find the strength, fortitude, and grace to face these difficult moments.
–Irma Herrera, Playwright/Solo Performer, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name?, (Best of Festival, 2017 San Francisco Fringe Festival)
The Long Arc of Grief
by Laura Schulkind
$14.99, paper
978-1-64662-002-9
2019
Poet and writer Laura Schulkind is an attorney by day, where she is entrusted with others’ stories. Through fiction and poetry she tells her own. She and her husband divide their time between Berkeley and Big Sur California. This collection tells stories of grief and healing–inspired and impelled by the loss of her parents, Herb and Rima.
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