Between Twilight

by Connie Post

In Between Twilight Post delves deep into the difficult journeys of everyday life and intersects those with the difficult maps of the past. There are "atrocities in the body" and many ways a person can falter, fall or rise from "the hue of an unseen self." Post explores the necessary truths, the ones we can no longer hide, the ones we've held on to, for too long. In these poems, the reader will more fully understand Faulkner's "the past is never the past in never past, it's not even dead." The poet infuses elements of evolution, illness, astronomy, humanity, internal travels inside our bodies, and travels back in time "before shadows understood their first for light." Post's poems will seep into our subconscious and help us see how a room can be "dark and iridescent all at once."

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published February 6, 2023

About the author

Connie Post is a San Francisco Bay area poet. She served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California from 2005 - June 2009.

She has taught poetry workshops at Book Passage, Sebastopol Center for the Arts and many other venues. She has served as the keynote speaker at several Bay Area Literary events.

Reviews

[Deirdre Fagan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An arresting and powerful collection that will hold you close and not let go. Highly recommended.

[Ace Boggess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Post's newest collection is a superb mix of narrative and confessional poetry, ranging in theme from joyous aspects of everyday moments to disturbing reflections on childhood trauma. These tonal shifts don't distract from the beauty of the work, but add to it, allowing the reader to calm down a bit in a sort of meditative pause before delving deeper into the narrator's backstory. The best thing about these poems is that they are highly accessible, and reader is allowed to enter and exit them at will. All in all, a wonderful book.

[David Cazden · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a style that is accessible, consistent, spare yet addictive to read, Post takes on a
wide range of subjects--especially trauma, elegy, but with beauty, darkness, grief and joy--a wide range, a sprectrum of lived experience presented in a nice long collection of poems. These poems all proceed with a certain ease and verbal inventiveness that makes each one wonderful to read. Reccomended for scope, style, at times difficult subject matter, and confidence in craft.

[Melissa]

My review can be found here: https://merliterary.com/2023/09/12/be...