Coaxing Flame: a Time of Hope

Coaxing Flame, a Time of Hope explores through poems of astonishing insight and clarity themes first encountered in her first book, Between the Light and Shadows. In this second volume, recovery from loss illuminates the path of the poet, drawing on childhood images of the Missouri Ozarks, fields, rivers, and streams; augmented by experiences of the sea and life in Massachusetts. In well-crafted images, the poet shares the breadth of life lived fully, spirituality deepened, enriched by family. Forty-six new poems will delight with lyrical, haunting, music. Scenes of nature are vividly painted with the deft strokes of an experienced, skillful writer immersed in her art and in the deepest regions of love, loss, and hope. Scenes of "Playing in the Light," exemplify grieving father, brother, and husband, and finding redemption and courage to transform loss into lyrical gains.