The Close World

Poetry. Winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. THE CLOSE WORLD is a prayer toward co-existence between self and other, past and present, the natural and the made world. Despite painful images drawn from childhood in the segregated south of the 50's and work in Rwanda and Congo, despite burdens of body and mind--'a woman harnessed to wood' or 'the soldier who will never not have killed'--this book of quiet witness and struggle for faith also offers up the beauty in 'feathers soft as smoke' or a snake 'buried in drifting blossoms, ' and the balm of deep, intuitive connection, whether found in a mother's dented tin measuring cup or in the 'breathing' trees' 'hunger to grow.' These quiet, sure-footed poems convey the irreplaceable value of 'foraging for hope's marrow.'--Ellen Dore Watson

Author: Adin Thayer
Publisher: Tebot Bach
Published: 08/16/2021
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781939678874

About the Author
Thayer, Adin: - Adin Thayer has worked as a psychotherapist, a teacher at the Smith College for Social Work, and a peacebuilding facilitator in several African countries. In addition to what she draws from these sources, her work queries her childhood growing up in Virginia when it was a legally segregated state. This background gives her work a sense of urgency as an adult to reveal, through her childhood eyes, a not seeing still inherent in the inequality we live with today. Threaded through her work is evidence of the multitude of resources, human, personal, cultural and spiritual, that people develop to transcend or transform challenging experiences. Among these resources, the lawfulness and beauty of the natural world have sustained and enriched her life, and are close to ubiquitous in her poetry. She was educated at Wellesley College and the University of North Carolina School for Social Work. She is the mother of two daughters and lives in Massachusetts.

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