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Necessary Turns

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Liz Abrams-Morley tells us that "Safety can be a costly illusion" in this wonderful collection of poems that does not rely on safe conclusions. Her poetry searches the tangled terrain of aging and change, and looks to nature as an omniscient partner on the journey. The resulting book is a clear-eyed cartography of loss, both heartbreaking and uplifting. If you love brave poetry, you must have Necessary Turns

Liz Abrams-Morley is a poet of human spirit. I am instantly able to connect with the honest appreciation of the natural world. Liz Abrams-Morley, bravely explores death and transience with an uplifting wisdom and heightened awarness. Necessary Turns is a book I am sure to keep by my bedside to be read and re-read.

Necessary Turns is wonderfully full of life, even as it takes us through the long, painful path out of grief and loss. In a culture often struck dumb by death and dying, Liz Abrams-Morley confronts tragedy with honesty and intelligence. Her poems display remarkable sympathy and touches of humor, rooted in the ebb and flow of the natural world. By turns playful and riveting, her language is consistently warm, rich and surprising. These poems have stayed with me for months, not so much because they bravely contemplate death, but because they speak to life.

Not many of us can write about the loss of loved ones with equanimity, but Liz Abrams-Morley has done just that in Necessary Turns. Her subtle details reverberate through our own memories and connect us to the people who inhabit these poems. And when we think we cannot bear to read of one more death, she soothes our grief with the glory of nature: "Praise what grows, always, even from loss." Balancing life and death is a remarkable achievement for any poet, and this is a remarkable collection.