Remember This Day by Linda Drattell

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In Remember This Day, Linda Drattell portrays the ordinary in everyday life with warmth, compassion, and a soft brush of understanding. In a clear and respectful voice, she champions the natural world and gives credence to its vulnerability. Witnessing a tree as “the raw wind mauls its branches”, she concludes that “not even Death can erase those precious defiant moments it spent on Earth”. Drattell’s beloved horse, who she imagines saying, “A bit rusty, but I’ve still got it in me”, reminds the reader that “Old age is nothing”. As long as she can “inhale the fragrance of fresh cut grass”, she is “delighted I can still detect it”. This collection also tackles the extraordinary. While watching Bastille Day fireworks with her husband, gunshots caused them to flee and hide. The reader feels Drattell’s guilt— “I led us to a place with no escape”—and cheers for another time when “I’m smiling, my brown hair mussed by the wind”.

–Constance Hanstedt, author of Don’t Leave Yet: How My Mother’s Alzheimer’s Opened My Heart and Treading Water

 

“Linda Drattell‘s poems immerse the reader, in tender moments with her beloved aging horse and menagerie of goats, in the endorphine high of running, and in the book’s climatic poem “Promenade des Anglais” which recounts a traumatic event that will replay in the reader’s mind long after turning the final page. Linda writes poetry to be savored and re-read.”
–James Morehead, Poet Laureate – Dublin, CA and author of “canvas” and “portraits of red and gray.”

 

“In REMEMBER THIS DAY the clean slate of nature, free from irony and bitterness, teaches us city dwellers it’s age-old, quiet, modest and heroic wisdom about mortality, aging, loss, defiance, mobility, compassion and courage. We are lifted to those moments and when we return to our present we see it with new eyes.”

–Mary Rakow, Ph.D., award winning novelist and freelance editor: www.maryrakow.com

 

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Remember This Day

by Linda DrattelL

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$17.99  

979-8-88838-325-4

2023

Linda Drattell’s poetry collection, Remember This Day, examines the fault lines we cross in life and the moral questions they pose. Drattell explores our struggle against erasure, the fear of a loved one dying, and retaining one’s worth in old age. She questions our hope in good deeds, ruminates on a predator-prey relationship, and delves into the emotional cost of surviving a terror attack. Remember This Day will leave you contemplating how we are transformed, remain resilient, and heal, as it extends an invitation to reflect more deeply on what it means to be alive.

Linda Drattell is an author, poet, and advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing residing in Northern California. Her poetry has appeared in both online publications and anthologies, including Prompt for the Press; Viewless Wings Publisher; Wingless Dreamer’s Field of Black Roses, Vanish in Poetry, Ink the Universe, Summer Fireflies, and Unveil the Memories anthologies; Las Positas College’s Havik anthology; and Bubbles Magazine (forthcoming). She is an avid long-distance runner and owns an aging horse and three goats. She serves on the boards of both the California Communications Access Foundation and the California Writers Club/Tri-Valley Writers Branch. She may be reached through her Twitter handle @LindaDrattell. To learn more about Linda, visit www.LindaDrattell.com.

 

 

 

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