for Holding Silence “To have your back against the horizon where darkness meets / its opposite in glory or grief,” Yingling posits in “Triangulum,” “ is this earthly life.” Hers is a
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| Title | : | for Holding Silence |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609641418 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-17 |
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Editorial : About the Author In addition to writing poetry, Nura Yingling has worked as a nurse's aide, waitress, journalist, graphic designer, art and drama teacher, English teacher, co-founder of the Creativity Center and Flathead Hospice Project in Kalispell, Montana, and high school administrator. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Iris, New Millennium and Wild Heart Journal. She studied writing at SUNY Buffalo with Mac Hammond and Raymond Federman, earning the Scribblers Prize for best poetry collection by an undergraduate, judged by Carl Dennis, in the early 1970's. An educator at Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville, Virginia since 1990, Ms. Yingling has also served as poetry editor of the University of Virginia Women's Journal, and judge of the UVA Art Museum's Writers Eye competition. for Holding Silence is her first full-length book of poetry.
Paraphrasing Walt Whitman, I say that whoever touches this book touches a woman —a woman of full and gracious force, whose wisdom eschews simplification or mere nostalgia in favor of the “fear and prayer” that attend evolution. Organized in sections that take their titles from the Twelve Step Recovery Program (admission, disclosure, surrender, restitution, &c), for Holding Silence moves, as well, through the diurnal and seasonal cycles of the narrator’s young womanhood and into her older age with its attendant, qualified, and deepened awareness. Girl, adolescent, lover, wife, teacher, and grandmother turn into one another everywhere in these marvelous narratives. “To have your back against the horizon where darkness meets / its opposite in glory or grief,” Yingling posits in “Triangulum,” “ is this earthly life.” Hers is a poetry of becoming and of being. “The woman who you could be,” she writes, “is.”
I was sort of fascinated by the portrait of an emotionally stilted person who can break loose and make great artbut he lost me, finally, when he was a jerk to Grant Hart at the end. I think his reading of both characters was accurate, and I would seek out books he has narrated.
This review was originally posted at Badass Book Reviews.. He was on the podium in 1959, driving with Maurice Trintingent in an Aston Martin DBR1. It probably did't hurt that Dominic Carter--a colorful media celebrity--served as grand marsal for the NAMI New York City walkathon, but the book deserves the distinction in its own right.
It is an incredible book by a person who has lived an incredible life, and overcome odds that would defeat most people.
Carter is a character written in bold and an inspiration. And while he never quite reaches patient with Lane, he does have a high tolerance for him. While this particular book was a miss for me, I did enjoy this author’s writi
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