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We confront our own aging long before we ourselves become old. Through the roles we play as family, friends, or caregivers to our elders, we learn to anticipate our own later years. Drawing on the author's half-century career in gerontology and anthropology, the poems of Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual impact of the aging experience on the nurses and patients, parents and grandparents, retirees and volunteers, Holocaust survivors and roommates, and elderly spouses and mourners he has known.
The poet shares stories in a variety of settings, which include a summer camp, an orchard, a national park, a nursery and a nursing home, hospitals, an older couple's marital bed, and the steps of a small-town front porch. At the core of these stories stand the aging body and mind, the well-worn heart, deep reservoirs of humor, love, and anger, and the longing, defiance, regret and gratitude of life's concluding decades.
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"This collection finds the pathos, the epiphanies, and light for a darkening path because though aging and death are old news, this contradiction, this broken contract, is happening to us for the first time and we need a little help from our friends."
-Sandra L Kleven, editor of Cirque
"Joel Savishinsky's stories and visceral imagery show us how we deepen by enduring. You will long remember the kindness and depth of this highly skilled poet."
-Ellen Hirning Schmidt, author of Oh, Say Did You Know
"Whether speaking as the main character or an observer, these poems ring true and prescient."
-D Ferrara, founder of San Fedele Press
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