Aging Without Grace

<p>You need to be strong to read these powerful poems but they are worth the journey along the course of aging. The title of the collection may be<em> Aging Without Grace</em> but the poems carry a special grace. It is the grace of truthfulness captured in stunning images such as “Now your vacant chair sighs when I pass by” in “When You Lay Dying.”<br /><br />The poems also touch the sensitivity of all ages as when a woman visiting the grave of a friend thinks of “The day when a friend might visit me” in “The Shift of Time.”<br /><br />Each piece in this startling collection of poems captures touchable shifts of time.<em> Aging Without Grace</em> illuminates Nobel Prize winner Salvatore Quasimodo’s definition of poetry as “the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as their own.”<br />                           </p><p>~ Anna M. Carroll<br />author of the poetry collections Gulag and Pieces of a Thief</p>