Waiting for Rain by Mary Fox

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This evocative collection highlights the many ordinary moments that make up a life. From the simplicity of “waiting for rain” on a summer’s evening to a nostalgic walk through a graveyard in “the chill of early August dusk,” each line should be savored and praised. Mary Fox is a poet of enormous depth and you will find yourself returning often to re-visit these poems as you give yourself “the gift of pause.”

–Rosalie Sanara Petrouske, author of What We Keep, Finishing Line Press

 

In Waiting for Rain, Mary Fox pulls back the curtain on the everyday to reveal and illuminate those “pale edges” that define the rooms we truly live in. Where the drama is less the sky opening up and pouring down a transformative rain and more the glare of sunlight on a television screen pushing the speaker to deeper, more reflective insights. Or where that “pale edge” is a husband’s dream of another lover, or his hope from a L-Z-Boy that his cancer is not growing. Or the memory of a snow angel, a grandmother’s icebox. In each poem Fox deftly reads the triumphs of this life before the rain and allows the wisdom found there to “blossom enthroned.”

–Dennis Hinrichsen, author of Skin Music, winner of the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize

 

 

 

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Waiting for Rain

by Mary Fox

$14.99, paper

About Waiting for Rain, Mary Fox states:

“In collecting the poems, I focused on the moments that people live in between life’s more dramatic events—times we are left waiting, resting, hoping, evaluating, mourning, or expecting what might come.  When we wait for rain, we can hope for growth, change or relief but we also can think of rain as interrupting our progress, flooding our plans, or in some other way “raining on our parade,” as the cliché says.  I wanted poems that captured those reflective moments of life, our reactions, when we step back and look for meaning and enlightenment.”

Mary Fox is a Michigan native born in Detroit and raised in Warren, Michigan. She attended Lincoln High School, graduated, and enrolled in Michigan State University where she majored in English and earned her teaching degree. She later earned a Masters degree in education with an emphasis in writing from Central Michigan University. She taught literature and writing for 40 years at Fowler High School in Fowler, Michigan, and writing for 13 years at Lansing Community College. She also served as her local’s union president and chief negotiator for several years. Widowed, she currently resides in Portland, Michigan, where she enjoys working with various political and charity groups, playing golf, swimming, spending days with family and friends, and of course, writing. She draws her inspiration from family memories and artifacts, experiences in the classroom, and observations of everyday life. Currently, she is developing her own blog site, working on short stories and a novel, and since she is also an active member of Writing at the Ledges in Grand Ledge, Michigan, she is contributing to and assisting in editing their fourth anthology of member works.

 

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