Poet’s Love Song drew me into a world I am forever grateful to be a part of, the world of a woman named Christine Ray. A world that is honest and frank, that speaks to our common humanity at the same time it tells us how we are different, but that within those differences we can now live with empathy and compassion. Our journeys are different, true. What defines my tale is unique to me. But individual moments of my experience mirror those of others out there and remind me of the fundamental humility required to live a whole, honest life. Christine teaches us this with her writing. All of us have had parts of our bodies that have failed us and set us on fire in the presence of another; hearts that have loved and been broken. Some of us choose to explain these experiences with this mysterious process called poetry. We choose to put our experiences into words that might go unread, but for those of us who read them and take the words out of the voice of the author and dare to mix them inside the voices in their own head we are truly rewarded by the experience of reading Composition of a Woman. I am not a woman. I cannot know what that experience is like. But I am human, and when Christine writes about her experiences they connect to the common human experience and when you get that piece, you can read her poems about being a woman with greater compassion. I cannot know what that experience is like, but I know what it is like to hurt and be hurt, to feel lonely and to feel wanted, to wonder if there is any point at all. After reading Composition of a Woman, I can look with respect on the women’s experience in the world and acknowledge the pain and the loneliness, the lusts and the passions as they are as human as my own, just very different. Those differences matter, A LOT, but so do the samenesses matter. Christine teaches us this with this beautiful book of poetry with the words of my favorite poem of hers:
“I see you… and you are beautiful.”
Isn’t that what we all want? To be seen as who we are, whole and beautiful?
Read this book. It is brilliant.
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Read this book and learn about your humanity.
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019
Poet’s Love Song drew me into a world I am forever grateful to be a part of, the world of a woman named Christine Ray. A world that is honest and frank, that speaks to our common humanity at the same time it tells us how we are different, but that within those differences we can now live with empathy and compassion. Our journeys are different, true. What defines my tale is unique to me. But individual moments of my experience mirror those of others out there and remind me of the fundamental humility required to live a whole, honest life. Christine teaches us this with her writing. All of us have had parts of our bodies that have failed us and set us on fire in the presence of another; hearts that have loved and been broken. Some of us choose to explain these experiences with this mysterious process called poetry. We choose to put our experiences into words that might go unread, but for those of us who read them and take the words out of the voice of the author and dare to mix them inside the voices in their own head we are truly rewarded by the experience of reading Composition of a Woman. I am not a woman. I cannot know what that experience is like. But I am human, and when Christine writes about her experiences they connect to the common human experience and when you get that piece, you can read her poems about being a woman with greater compassion. I cannot know what that experience is like, but I know what it is like to hurt and be hurt, to feel lonely and to feel wanted, to wonder if there is any point at all. After reading Composition of a Woman, I can look with respect on the women’s experience in the world and acknowledge the pain and the loneliness, the lusts and the passions as they are as human as my own, just very different. Those differences matter, A LOT, but so do the samenesses matter. Christine teaches us this with this beautiful book of poetry with the words of my favorite poem of hers:“I see you… and you are beautiful.”Isn’t that what we all want? To be seen as who we are, whole and beautiful?Read this book. It is brilliant.
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019
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“I see you… and you are beautiful.”
Isn’t that what we all want? To be seen as who we are, whole and beautiful?
Read this book. It is brilliant.
Read this book and learn about your humanity.
By Stephen Fuller on January 12, 2019
Poet’s Love Song drew me into a world I am forever grateful to be a part of, the world of a woman named Christine Ray. A world that is honest and frank, that speaks to our common humanity at the same time it tells us how we are different, but that within those differences we can now live with empathy and compassion. Our journeys are different, true. What defines my tale is unique to me. But individual moments of my experience mirror those of others out there and remind me of the fundamental humility required to live a whole, honest life. Christine teaches us this with her writing. All of us have had parts of our bodies that have failed us and set us on fire in the presence of another; hearts that have loved and been broken. Some of us choose to explain these experiences with this mysterious process called poetry. We choose to put our experiences into words that might go unread, but for those of us who read them and take the words out of the voice of the author and dare to mix them inside the voices in their own head we are truly rewarded by the experience of reading Composition of a Woman. I am not a woman. I cannot know what that experience is like. But I am human, and when Christine writes about her experiences they connect to the common human experience and when you get that piece, you can read her poems about being a woman with greater compassion. I cannot know what that experience is like, but I know what it is like to hurt and be hurt, to feel lonely and to feel wanted, to wonder if there is any point at all. After reading Composition of a Woman, I can look with respect on the women’s experience in the world and acknowledge the pain and the loneliness, the lusts and the passions as they are as human as my own, just very different. Those differences matter, A LOT, but so do the samenesses matter. Christine teaches us this with this beautiful book of poetry with the words of my favorite poem of hers:By Stephen Fuller on January 12, 2019
“I see you… and you are beautiful.”
Isn’t that what we all want? To be seen as who we are, whole and beautiful?
Read this book. It is brilliant.
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