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Incredibly moving -- a must read!,
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This review is from: The Unpredictability of Light (Paperback)
Bouvard deftly covers many topics in this book -- violence, betrayal, peace, love of family and nature, sensuality, and the afterlife. In a lesser poet's hands, this vast exploration of life (here and beyond) would fall flat. But Bouvard makes each topic sing. I loved these poems and recommend this book without caveat. Below is one of my favorite poems by Bouvard. It is timely and powerful. Her phrasing slays me every time:
WEAVING A WEB by Marguerite Bouvard A spider is working diligently before me this Sunday morning. Long silken threads stretch from its mouth, waving in each gust of air. It's like the game of hide and seek where only a burst of unexpected light reveals the intricate, ever changing pattern. It's skill is in its invisibility so that we can walk through our morning without seeing its handwork as we turn our attention to the World Cup soccer match. Meanwhile Iman Abou Omar is snatched from the sidewalk as he walks home from his mosque in Milan, vanished in the web that stretches from Cairo to Amman, to Timisoara, Kabul, Islamabad and Guantanamo. No one ever sees this network of secret renditions and detentions, an underworld that pulses beneath our secured houses: thousands hurled outside of time.
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