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A Bright Forgetting
by Lynne Martin Bowman
$15.99, paper
979-8-88838-155-7
2023
Along with my earlier chapbook, Water Never Sleeps, A Bright Forgetting is part of my journey of care for my parents and of remembering them and our family. It is an exploration of how to say goodbye. It is an elegy for what my parents and grandparents built, and what was rent, torn, or is tearing and how that fragmentation is simply how, as humans, all our lives are synapses firing bright with beauty and memories– a bird takes flight, a child leaves, a boy finds a girl, a home; a family grows, thrives, travels, divides, misunderstands, then age and death unfurl a final banner– the panoply of hope, longing, and forgetting. It’s about the poignancy of transience- that what seemed secure and full will be forgotten, lost. But gathering them while I may, I hope these poems convey the difficult, yet cherished memories and reflections of that bright firefly flash of life.
Lynne Martin Bowman was The Comstock Review’s National Chapbook Contest winner for Water Never Sleeps. Also, she has been Sonora Review’s Poetry Prize winner and Crab Orchard Review’s Poetry Prize 2nd Place. Her work has appeared in the Emily Dickinson Award Anthology, Southern Poetry Review, The Mississippi Review, and The International Poetry Review, among others. She lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband and rescued dogs and cat.
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