Hari Om, Hurry Home by Brenda Nicholas

$14.99

 

With a keen eye for detail and a large heart, Nicholas writes of how her yoga practice yokes spirit to flesh, attends to the losses still resonant within her body. Indeed, all through this volume, the material and spiritual worlds meet. And in those charged meetings, we are given deftly drawn glimpses of her experience as a woman of deep feeling, of her uncommon humanity.

–Mark Cox, author of Readiness and Sorrow Bread

 

In Hari Om, Hurry Home, Brenda Nicholas’ lucid and stellar collection of poems, her yoga practice is her poetry and her poetry, her yoga practice. There is no separation—only this ingenious, exquisite connection.

–Malena Mörling, author of Ocean Avenue and Astoria

 

This lovely and heartfelt collection takes us from “First Yoga Class,” where “warm energy/ emerges from a newly lit lamp/ in some dark corner of an organ deep within,” to “Balasana, Child’s Pose,” where the speaker thinks “of babies sleeping/ as if steeping . . . like tiny tea bags nestled/ against the side of this world.” With such fresh imagery, the poems move smoothly from asana (pose) to asana, reminding us that “Yoga means to yoke, to connect,” as the speaker moves through divorce, childrearing, lovers, and her father’s death, deepening her practice as she goes. By the end of class, we are enlightened by “Savansana, Corpse Pose,” where the speaker imagines her dying father “carefully packing my final words/ to move into his new home inside my heart.” Beautiful and true.

–Barbara Ungar, author of Save Our Ship and Immortal Medusa

 

 

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Hari Om, Hurry Home

by Brenda Nicholas

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-598-7

2021

Brenda Nicholas is an Associate Professor of English at Temple College in Texas. Her work has appeared in The Painted Bride Quarterly, Red River Review, Illya’s Honey, Menacing Hedge, The Ekphrastic Review, The Helix Magazine, and other literary journals. Her full-length manuscript was selected as a semifinalist in the 2020 Philip Levine Book Prize. In addition to teaching English and writing poetry, Brenda completed a yoga teacher training program in 2012, an opportunity that deepened her yoga practice and inspired the poems in this chapbook. Website: https://www.brendanicholas.net

 

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