Disconnects and Other Broken Threads

<p>These poems are a meditation on the myriad divisions and inequities we face both personally and as a society. In <strong><em>Disconnects and Other Broken Threads</em></strong><em></em> award-winning poet Emily-Sue Sloane pulls on many of the fraying threads that divide us and gently weaves them with striking imagery to inspire connections through hope and at times humor.</p><p><br></p><p>------------------</p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Like a gardener cultivating a bonsai tree Emily-Sue Sloane takes big wild concepts like mortality impotent rage grief and regret and presents them to us as stark small snapshots of everyday life. <strong>-Rorie Kelly singer/songwriter <em>Shadow Work</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Sloane sees feels and speaks with an honesty that will not accept the glib comfort of pretense....[She] suggests again and again with rage regret humor irony and anger: This is what it takes to be alive. <strong>-Scudder Parker poet and author of <em>Safe as Lightning</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Indignant of social injustices she deconstructs the makeup of contemporary life giving a thundering voice to the voiceless. <strong>-Tonia Leon bilingual poet and translator author of <em>My Beloved Chaos</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-right><strong> </strong></p><p> </p>