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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Poems filled with honest emoting - can’t ask for much more than that. Nice imagery with interesting word combinations. Just the type of soul examining, soul loving, and soul filling tham I enjoy.This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Doug Stanfield’s new work, Lifting Stones in three sections, is dense with the weight of a life being observed to the fullest. Using a free-verse poetic style the author creates a memoir covering decades from his life. An honest narrative exposes the facets of his life without filters. He captures our universal experiences with a sparser style of writing than his previous work, I Come From A Place of Fireflies. And, it is apropos when faced with losing a spouse, selling a house, and the inevitability of aging. Yet, all this is counterbalanced with selected writings in “Memories” and “Turning Points.” There is nothing maudlin here. It is the clarity of his language that encapsulates the complexity of feeling and makes it accessible for any reader.Re-uploaded review from June 2021. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. The poems here range from haiku to a piece of pages-long prose and from the timely ("Love in the Time of Corona") to the timeless. The title is well chosen: heavy burdens like grief are lightened in (and because of!) many of these poems, and the title poem is a wonderful metaphor for the writing of poetry. I especially love Stanfield's beautiful paradoxes: "Memory," for example, is a poem about your future. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. A beautiful collection of poems about what it means to be alive and struggle with beauty, time, loss and love. The poems reach into the universal experience and ask questions of the self and the world with gentle wisdom, demanding no answers but pinpointing the beauty in the question itself. A book to revisit and live alongside. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This collection of poems reads as a tender travelogue and autobiography through the writers experiences of loss, love, hope, and grief. Truly a commanding and emotional look at the human condition. Highly recommended! no reviews | add a review
"A lovely, relatable set of poems for the heartbroken and helpless romantics." --Kirkus ReviewsLifting Stones is an autobiography of sorts; a travel journal where the poet travels in nature and into memories of love, hope, grief, and loss. "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards," wrote Søren Kierkegaard, and this is the genesis of Stanfield's collection. His poems understand a life by looking back along the trail, seeing clearly for the first time, stacking personal, grounded word formations like rock cairns left for the next traveler: a way for stones, and words, to live forward. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.52Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1900-1945LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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