Solo Crossing [Paperback]

Cynthia Navaretta (Author), Meg Campbell (Author), Linda Bastian (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1877675318 | ISBN-13: 978-1877675317 | Publication Date: October 1, 1999 | Edition: 1

A memoir in poems of the journey through separation and divorce to a new life beyond.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Campbell takes our hands and walks with us through the surprising twists in our life with language that stabs like an icicle or warms like the springtime sun. -- The La Jolla Light, November 11, 1999

Even when the poems are slightly oblique...they are are located under the shadow-dripping canopy of the loss of her marriage. -- The Improper Bostonian, February 23, 2000 by MOPSY STRANGE KENNEDY

[Campbell] not only reinvented her life by discovering a new metier but may have produced an overnight hit. -- The Boston Globe, January 3, 2000

About the Author

Meg Campbell grew up with five siblings in La Jolla, CA, where she graduated from The Bishop's School for Girls. After graduating from Radcliffe College in 1974, she worked as a community organizer in Arkansas, Texas, Lousiana and Vermont; legislative research director at the Massachusetts State Senate, and teacher and administrator in the Chelsea, MA Public Schools.

Currently a Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Executive Director of Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound, she holds an M.S. from Wheelock College and a C.A.S. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She teaches a poetry immersion course for teachers at Teachers and Writers Initiative in New York City.

Meg Campbell is currently working with William Duke on an anthology of poems about divorce, SPLIT VERSE: POEMS TO HEAL THE HEART. Her daughters, Moriah, a senior at Wellesley College, and Adrienne, a sophomore at Barnard College, call Boston their home.

Product Details

• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: Midmarch Arts Pr; 1 edition (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1877675318
• ISBN-13: 978-1877675317
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,517,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Solo Crossing that Invites Everyone, January 6, 2000

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This review is from: Solo Crossing (Paperback)

The strength of these poems goes far beyond the all-too-human experience of divorce and betrayal. Here is a rich poetic voice, fresh in metaphor (from Crocuses: Synchronized/as infant birds straining gullets), and fearless in romantic honesty (from Airborne: My mother, 72,/turns to the handsome man seated beside/her on the plane./I bet you were hoping to sit next to/an attractive young blonde./Smiling, he replies, I am.) These poems are ringingly lyrical and unselfconscious, sometimes a bit spare and clipped, but always redeemed by their music.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She must have loved him a lot, December 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Solo Crossing (Paperback)

On reading her poems my heart resonated. At some I cried. I did not want to, but she plucked that exact string and I was transported instantaneously into the feelings of my own divorce. What more can you ask for in an author?

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars definitely worth a look, January 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Solo Crossing (Paperback)

Were Solo Crossing to be one long whine about divorce angst, it would not necessarily be worth reading. What does shine in this book is the author's distinct ability to distill human experience, which in her case does include a painful divorce, into images that are right and relevant for all sorts of readers. Here is another wonderful example why poetry is reaching so many new readers.