The Fire in Hand
Karen Torop
(Author)
Description
The Fire in Hand is a gorgeous, complex collection of poetry, and what an extraordinary eye for detail Karen Torop has. Whether she is praising the beauty of "two / high-seated tractors," exploring the essential contradiction of loving both her cat and the beautiful rose-breasted grosbeak killed by the cat--"the rose-red / on its breast a bib of blood"--or watching her mother approaching death, her "bones loosely covered, mean as spokes," Torop's gift to us is her insistence that we must pause, look beyond habit, in order to love the world in all its glorious contradictions.
Product Details
Price
$20.00
$18.60
Publisher
Antrim House Books
Publish Date
January 26, 2019
Pages
132
Dimensions
6.0 X 0.31 X 9.0 inches | 0.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781943826513
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About the Author
Karen Torop is a poet and a psychotherapist. She is a graduate of Smith College, Boston University School of Social Work, and the Wesleyan University Graduate Liberal Studies Program, where she studied with Tony Connor and Edwina Trentham. She is also a trained yoga teacher. She loves language and is fluent in French and Italian. Karen lives in a rural area of Connecticut with her husband, their chocolate Labrador Obie, three hens, two cats, one cockatiel, and several gardens.
