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The Opal Flare by Amy Randolph

Name: The Opal Flare by Amy Randolph
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Amy Randolph’s captivating The Opal Flare is a book of remembering and trying to forget, an earnest struggle to hold and release grief. These poems yearn to remember the living, while drawn to the opal flare of that “other” you: “face / a white boat drifting / on morphine seas. . . . empty face drifting, / eyes closed, / on night’s uncrossable waters.” A tender collection that believes in “small silences,” The Open Flare is about listening, both to the self and the one “lost in the tedium of dying.” Ultimately, these are love poems to those we are losing or have lost.

–Marjorie Maddox, author of Seeing Things

True to its title, Amy Randolph‘s chapbook, “The Opal Flare” has a subtle but fiery beauty shooting in all directions. She has written a book of grief, love and beauty. Only its size is small–everything else about it is large and wise.

–Liz Rosenberg, author of Light Gathering Poems, I Just Hope It’s Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy, and The Moonlight Palace, (a novel). .

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The Opal Flare

by Amy Randolph

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The poems collected in this chapbook were written over a period between my mother’s death and the height of the Covid pandemic that claimed so many lives. My friends lost friends and close relatives. My students lost friends and close relatives. During the peak of the pandemic, my father passed away. He had to live out his days confined to an assisted living facility in Texas. I was unable to attend my mother’ funeral (I was recovering from surgery), and Covid kept me from attending my father’s funeral service. For a long time, I thought of myself as the “unfilial” daughter. These poems are not “about” my experiences, nor do they evade them. Instead, they take them on in the more mysterious realm of the unconscious. One might think of them as “soul-poems,” or “sorrowing poems” with intimations of hope. #hope #family #poetry

Amy Randolph teaches English/Creative Writing at Waynesurg University. She is the author of two award -winning poetry collections—Cold Angel of Mercy (Benjamin Saltman Red Hen Press) and A Particular Sorrow, a Tree (published by Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press). In addition to poetry, her passions are songwriting, singing, and digital art.