Beautifully honest and heartbreaking, "Parts That Were Once Whole" boldly exposes the human psyche. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Although sometimes metaphysical, this subject matter doesn t alienate the reader because Botkin's clear, focused craft shapes her subject matter into a very natural-feeling art. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous image of what was once whole.
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Nancy Botkin's poems are finely imagined, sharply realized, and exquisitely crafted. Her particular strength is to transform moments of personal pain or confusion, often in the context of very ugly circumstances, into realizations of truth or beauty that transcend and heal the wounded psyche. But there is nothing forced or didactic. These realizations arise naturally through images that fuse subject and object into a new being. --Stephen Meats
The dignity, clarity, and passion of Nancy Botkin's writing is at the heart of all great poetry, and to read her poems is to remember why we so love the art. To read these welcome poems is to feel refreshed and centered, to remember that "the only choice is to love the world." --Richard Jones
The dignity, clarity, and passion of Nancy Botkin's writing is at the heart of all great poetry, and to read her poems is to remember why we so love the art. To read these welcome poems is to feel refreshed and centered, to remember that "the only choice is to love the world." --Richard Jones
About the Author
Nancy Botkin was born in Detroit and spent her youth in Michigan. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Poetry, Poetry East, The Midwest Quarterly, Passages North, and South Dakota Review. Her chapbook, Signs of Life, was published by No Exit Press in 1999. Nancy lives in South Bend, Indiana, with her husband and teaches freshman composition and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend.
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The pages of this book are a smorgasbord of visionary word smithing! The author has crafted a reader's delight of imagery from the first unfolding of descriptions until the very last page of insights. These poems capture the deep understandings of being alive and yet sets all that it means to be human into an endless feast of reflective reality. The word images are like none other I've ever seen. The author speaks to every human heart and soul who reads these inked visions. The readers will be "nourished by the stars" and "wear the face of all this is possible". As the author writes, "let all the tomorrows come". I love this book!!
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