Aging Without Grace

by Sandra Fox Murphy

A collection of poetry focusing on the shift of time, grief and loss, gratitude and celebration in the ineloquent journey to our glowing years.

"You need to be strong to read these powerful poems, but they are worth the journey along the course of aging. The title of the collection may be Aging Without Grace, but the poems carry a special grace. It is the grace of truthfulness captured in stunning images such as, "Now your vacant chair sighs when I pass by," in "When You Lay Dying."

The poems also touch the sensitivity of all ages as when a woman visiting the grave of a friend thinks of "The day when a friend might visit me," in "The Shift of Time."

Each piece in this startling collection of poems captures touchable shifts of time. Aging Without Grace illuminates Nobel Prize winner Salvatore Quasimodo's definition of poetry as 'the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as their own'."

Anna M. Carroll,
author of the poetry collections Gulag and Pieces of a Thief

68 pages, Paperback

Published July 17, 2019

About the author

SANDRA FOX MURPHY is originally from Glasgow, Delaware, and grew up an Air Force “brat.” Sandy was inspired to begin writing while studying the beatnik poets at Indian Valley College in California and later received her Bachelor of Arts in English and French Literature at The University of Texas. She retired as a labor-management-relations consultant from the U.S Geological Survey. Her first novel, A Thousand Stars, historical fiction set in early Barbados and Rhode Island, was published in March 2016 and is available at Amazon. Her second novel, That Beautiful Season, begins in the Civil War, in Maryland, and delves into the love of the land and family through difficult times. She is now researching and writing the story of Fidelia McCord on a wagon train to Texas in 1847. You can find her website at www.sandrafoxmurphy.com