Colleen Teasdale Filler is a retired History and English teacher and a graduate of the Drew University MFA program in Poetry. She currently lives in British Columbia and spends her summers on an island in Maine.
PRAISE:
This bountiful collection’s opening poem gives us a speaker in total darkness, willing to trust her senses to explore her surroundings, as she does through the rest of the book—eager and attentive, even to “study how trees “meet the ground.” Creatures, the natural world—and vision—have starring roles, but she also delights in “the purity of sound unbound,” with Paul Winter and Hildegarde von Bingen making impressive appearances. And, as much as Filler trusts her senses, and engages ours, she is brought up short by “how easily we blind”—to our own peril and that of others.
–Ellen Doré Watson
Colleen Filler‘s gorgeous debut collection is part exploration of rugged coastal landscapes, and part meditation on an interior life that notices, remembers, and contemplates, with great empathy, one’s place in the larger world. With each page, like the slow turnings of an island trail, we find delight, insight, and surprise. We are shown A hare paused in the road, / taking stock, ears alert—/. Here, the poet’s lens is keen to recognize the ordinary as sacred, and spot the revelations of an inner life so easily overlooked. In these poems the reader will discover What the Pause Gives.
–Sean Nevin, Author of Oblivio Gate
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