The Chapel of Small Breath

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Our lives are awash with moments when we come undone: we face a loved one's belongings after they have gone a deer jumps in front of the car or we face a debilitating illness. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Chapel of Small Breath </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>meets us there. As the collection moves from love to loss to possible renewal the reader experiences the journey through precise and stunning images: midwinter the beloved pulls an orange warm from his pocket. A silversmith strikes the hammer turning grief into beauty. A wedding ring is in the dirt between the roses and black-eyed susans. The collection invites us into the liminal space of loss where Linn</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>shows us the holy that's stitched right through it.</span></p><p><br></p>