“Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.” PeopleHeartCountryDiesCultureLeftWaterCitiesBloodWindTasksOur CountryRuinsBelovedRisingNeglectFiercePerilAbandonmentSymphonyUtterancePoignantChroniclesSorrowfulImpassioned Author:Carolyn Forche
“Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.” IfsFacesLeftWaitingLosesGraceSeeingDoorsTomorrowRaisesBelovedChampionHopelessYour FaceAbandonedNever Lose Hope Author:Rumi
“Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.” WorldLittlesWarLeftLandArmsWasteGardenBelovedFlamesOur WorldComrade Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942 Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942
“I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.” KindTogetherLeftCuttingTreePromiseSpringGardenPlantWinterInevitableTriumphBelovedTiesAutumnDeclineSolitaryDecayCompanionshipSweetestMisanthropeEvergreens Book:Francesca Carrara Source: Francesca Carrara