Broken

<p>This is Cynthia Pitman's fourth book of poetry: Broken is a collection of free-verse poems addressing different topics: the nature of art and beauty the fragility and resilience of the self the connection to nature -- its saving grace as well as its fierce destructiveness the sense of the spiritual and the sublime the effects of mental illness and the possibility of hope in the face of it the lure of the magical and fantastical the joy of the mundane the simple peace of home and hearth the approach of the end of life and other topics.</p>