Lorri Neilsen Glenn in Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry offers a compelling and poetic work. This collection of linked prose explores Neilsen Glenn’s journey into poetry and deepening understanding of poetry as a model of secular compunction that serves as a form of prayer. Here are personal essays about loss from childhood through to adulthood as well as essays about Neilsen Glenn’s initiation into the practice of poetry that was both timely and necessary. Neilsen Glenn is the author of four books of poetry and her non-fiction has been shortlisted and won awards in contests sponsored by Prairie Fire, Event, as well as the National Magazine Awards. She has been the Poet Laureate of Halifax.
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Lorri Neilsen Glenn was born and raised in Western Canada and moved to Nova Scotia in 1983. An ethnographer and essayist, she is the author and editor of six academic books on research and literacy. Her first book of poems, all the perfect disguises, appeared in 2003. She was appointed Poet Laureate for Halifax for 2005-2009.
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By Allison
I love this book!The writer takes the reader on a personal journey from grief to writing, and everything in between. I found this memoir to be spiritually comforting and left me with an understanding of how poetry and loss are indeed threaded with light.
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from Halifax's Chronicle Herald, March 4, 2012:
"This book of fluid form is a river of remembrances, a creed for creativity. Threading Light is a conversation and an offering, a gift to share....
Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry
Reading Lorri Neilsen Glenn's new book, Threading Light, is like having a long, deep conversation with a trusted friend.
"Language is a hinge that connects us with the flesh of our experience," writes Glenn on the opening page of the book. I will follow a writer who can craft this sentence anywhere the pages lead.
Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry is a "parcel of essay and verse and anecdote," writes Glenn. It is a witnessing of the smallest details and the largest losses that shape a life, a community, a world.
The book is divided into a trinity. The first section illuminates stories of loss in Glenn's own life. The second part explores loss and grief in the world and the concluding third weaves a tapestry of the communities we create as we share experiences and words."
- Mary Jo Anderson
"This book of fluid form is a river of remembrances, a creed for creativity. Threading Light is a conversation and an offering, a gift to share....
Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry
Reading Lorri Neilsen Glenn's new book, Threading Light, is like having a long, deep conversation with a trusted friend.
"Language is a hinge that connects us with the flesh of our experience," writes Glenn on the opening page of the book. I will follow a writer who can craft this sentence anywhere the pages lead.
Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry is a "parcel of essay and verse and anecdote," writes Glenn. It is a witnessing of the smallest details and the largest losses that shape a life, a community, a world.
The book is divided into a trinity. The first section illuminates stories of loss in Glenn's own life. The second part explores loss and grief in the world and the concluding third weaves a tapestry of the communities we create as we share experiences and words."
- Mary Jo Anderson
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Arlene
I highly recommend this book. It transports the reader to a world of vivid images and emotionally-charged, captivating stories. The text flows smoothly and beautifully; yet with the succinct, razor-sharp word choice of a talented poet. There is laughing-out-loud humour, an important ingredient when dealing with grief and loss. Buy it!!
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