Bone Flute

<p class=ql-align-justify>Inspired by Bishop and Dickinson <em>Bone Flute: A Woman Speaks</em> by Irene Adler gives equal voice to the unspeakable sorrows and wonders of being alive. Edited by award-winning poet Angela Narciso Torres this posthumous collection provides a longitudinal poetic record of American life and womanhood echoing Linda Pastan Mona Van Duyn and Grace Paley.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>PRAISE:</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Reading <em>Bone Flute</em> we travel with the poet through the seasons of her life moving through history through memory through geography and yet with a powerful sense of immediacy. I feel certain that there are poems here . . . that will survive the way poems do lodged like a tough plant in a crack in someone's heart. -from the foreword by Nan Cohen author of <em>Unfinished City</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>. . . Adler celebrates the small but profound joys that make any life a miracle in spite of suffering 'black clouds fringed silver.' -Sally Ashton author of <em>Listening to Mars</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Smooth seeming are the waters into which Irene Adler's words cleanly dive. -Cintia Santana author of <em>The Disordered Alphabet</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Irene's small and sacred meditations reveal what the owls birds and beetles already know: life's 'wild velocity' lives in every 'quill bone and feather.' -Robin Ekiss author of <em>The Mansion of Happiness</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Bone Flute is a wise testament to the pain and wonder of being human. -Peter Kline author of <em>Mirrorforms</em></p>