These collected short prose pieces carry us through a the changes of a woman's life from youth to middle age. The writing style has been described as poetic and dreamlike.
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Normandi Ellis is the author of the award-winning Sorrowful Mysteries and Other Stories. Her other works include three books on ancient Egypt, Awakening Osiris (translations from the Egyptian hieroglyphs), Dreams of Isis and the most recent Feasts of Light. Jean Houston calls her "one of the finest writers of our time."
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At Night...
I notice all the dust gathered up behind the closed door, dust I didn't see in daylight when the door was opened and I walked quickly in and out of rooms: a tuft of cat hair caught. A stray pile of ashes plopped down. Sometimes a forgotten pair of socks, sometimes only one; and I think before I go to sleep, "I'll clean that up tomorrow." In the morning after I've opened the door, I forget about it; the dirt and dust have disappeared.
At night I have dreams that I mistake for reality. I woke this morning thinking David's son had come into the room and whispered, "Dad?" I lie in bed grading papers until I fall asleep -- light on. At night when I don't sleep I stare out the window, holding the cat. I feel distinctly like somebody else. And I don't mind.
At night when everyone's asleep I go downstairs in the dark to drink some diet Coke. I don't turn on the lights. I walk with myhands on the walls, feet tapping the carpet for stairs. I do this not because I am thirsty, but because I like standing alone in the dark kitchen, then opening the refrigerator, watching all that light tumble out of a closed up box.
It still amazes me.
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This review is from: Voice Forms (Paperback)
Every page is a new and independantly interesting story and perspective on the world. At the same time, there is a unifying theme of practical reality and inescapable human experience. It is hard to believe that so much could come out of one person. Normandi Ellis must have suffered labour pains giving birth to this great work of art.
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