Narrow Droplets

Narrow Droplets is a riveting collection of 240 poems on four themes: mind body heart soul. Edgy and sophisticated works from this Detroit-based poet make you reflect react and respond. From conveying the heartache of betrayal to questioning the role of a higher power Narrow Droplets transports the reader to recalling the personal often-tumultuous experiences of our teenage years twenties and thirties. Written over a twenty-two year period the poetry of Narrow Droplets shares the journey from love to loss commitment to infidelity indecision to education and pleasure to pain. The reader is confronted with challenging subjects on modern-American society's obsession with physical beauty the mentality of excess and the throwaway culture of the 21st Century. Direct poignant and witty Narrow Droplets will be memorable to poetry-lovers from all backgrounds. Calling upon a variety of forms and styles this collection is valuable to both students of the genre and general readers with an appreciation of language and literary passion. Poetry is only meaningful when it is close to nature and approaches the truth of feeling. The poetry of Cassandra Swiderski has truly done this while maintaining the flexibility openness and constant readiness to listen. She raises the reader's curiosity engages him in the event and then surprises him with an unexpected catastrophe. The true purpose of any poet is to give the world a new shape and stop it from going to sleep and I think Narrow Droplets is the apt refection of that -Usman Khan author The Narrow Droplets of Cassandra Swiderski's poems stream together to form a hauntingly beautiful and poignantly honest river of voices in this intensely personal yet universal collection of verse -Steven Gulvezan author of The Dogs of Paris