ON: Reflections on Life, Love and Loss

ON: Reflections on Life, Love and Loss is a book of poetry. But it is something more. It is a life journey through childhood innocence, adolescent turbulence, anti war activism, romantic love, mature love, aging, finally culminating in the realization of ultimate, impending loss. Facing these challenges with grace is what it means to live a full human life. These poems are organic and not ornamental. The author strives for honesty in ways both intimate and personal as well as universal and expansive. Structured in three movements, LIFE, LOVE and LOSS, this poetry collection invites the reader to return and re-experience their own lives through the lens of someone who has lived a long and varied life. ON: offers consolation, but never false hope or platitudes. The work reminds us that grief is the price of love and that bearing witness is an act of survival. The imagery is unflinching as the author reminds us of the human cost of political ambition, nationalism and indifference. And written by someone who has lived long enough to witness and understand the full impact of consequence. ON: is a living testament to the interior life of women, exploring sexuality, power, ambivalence, devotion, loss and selfhood, spanning from girlhood, to lover, mother, and finally as an elder. As the author writes in the closing line of THE LIAR, "the journey is the love." This book is a journey well worth taking.