What The Pause Gives by Colleen Teasdale Filler

Name: What The Pause Gives by Colleen Teasdale Filler
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This bountiful collection’s opening poem gives us a speaker in total darkness, willing to trust her senses to explore her surroundings, as she does through the rest of the book—eager and attentive, even to “study how trees “meet the ground.” Creatures, the natural world—and vision—have starring roles, but she also delights in “the purity of sound unbound,” with Paul Winter and Hildegarde von Bingen making impressive appearances. And, as much as Filler trusts her senses, and engages ours, she is brought up short by “how easily we blind”—to our own peril and that of others.

–Ellen Doré Watson

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What The Pause Gives

by Colleen Teasdale Filler

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What the Pause Gives invites exactly that—what we can see and feel when we pause to take in the world around us. These are poems about noticing, whatever that pause may be. It’s about how meaningful small moments can be, whether they be observations of roots, acorns, trees, skunk cabbage, apricots, dogs, wolves, bears, wind, water, or fire.. Some poems contemplate what we humans do to the world, both when we have a sense of knowing and a sense of how much we don’t know, what it is to be hardwired, when we might be tethered, and finally offering Reasons to Survive. #poetry#memory#environment#humanity#life

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Colleen Teasdale Filler is a retired History and English teacher and a graduate of the Drew University MFA program in Poetry. She currently lives in British Columbia and spends her summers on an island in Maine.