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The Open Hand of Sky
by Connie Wasem Scott
$19.99, Full-length, paper
978-1-64662-923-7
2022
The Open Hand of Sky examines personal bonds and what breaks them. Divided in three parts – fire, sand, trees – this intimate collection by Connie Wasem Scott examines a sibling bond and shared memories lost to an illness; a marriage that dries up like desert rain and the child that sprang from the turmoil; the speaker’s longing for connection that grows from loneliness and grief. Landscapes roll through this collection like a road trip through Colorado fields, North Dakota farmlands, the craggy hide of West Texas, to the towering trees of Washington. In each place, the speaker keeps an eye trained on the natural world – her source of comfort and stability, as though nature’s hand will hold her steady against the blowing gales of time and loss.
Connie Wasem Scott is a poet and educator living in Spokane, WA. She is the author of the chapbook Predictable as Fire (Moonstone Press, 2021), and her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. She prefers to be outdoors, hiking and camping in in a forest or walking in city parks. For the past 20 years, she has served as an energetic and engaged English Instructor at Spokane Falls Community College.
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