Looking for Disappearance by Karen Arnold

$15.99

 

These poems, rich in natural imagery, landscapes, and family dynamics, remind us that art and the creative cycles of the world offer solace as we navigate change and loss common to us all.

–Jeffrey Levine, Tupelo Press

 

Moons convey mystery, light, and movement, and rarely more so than in this wonderful collection of seventeen of Karen Arnold’s best.  Her poems are memory fragments, set down in verse, clear as glass, and sharp as new razors. If you like poems that bring forth memories, create new ways of seeing life, and leave you with memorable lines imprinted in your mind, then Looking for Disappearance is a book you want to own.  Once you do, you will treasure it.

–Chris Helvey editor in chief, Trajectory

 

 

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Looking for Disappearance

by Karen Arnold

15.99, paper

979-8-88838-187-8

2023

Loss figures into our lives in a wide arc: change of seasons, migration, coming of age, physical and emotional changes, death of a loved one, loss of a sense of safety.  Each shift has effects we recognize, resist, must learn to bear or cherish or be defeated by.  These poems muse over what triggers memories, remind us of nature’s role in life’s balance, catalogue the random ties between past and present that weave our lives into whole cloth

As a literary gypsy I have been: Poet-in-Residence at Montpelier Cultural Arts Center in Laurel, MD; taught at universities in the United States, Sweden and Norway; taught creative and autobiography writing workshops; create and facilitate veterans’ reading and discussion series originated by Maryland Humanities, in libraries and cultural centers.  I have a Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park where I was a Master Teacher and Assistant Director of Freshman English.  My poems can be found in Trajectory, Connecticut Review, Evening Street Press, Gyroscope, Kerf, Vesper I, For Ukraine from Women of the World, Farmer-ish.  Originally a Midwesterner, I now live and work in Maryland near Atlantic shores and beaches which I love.  My house is FULL of driftwood, shells, and rocks…..Maryland to Maine!!

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