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Then, Something
Poetry. THEN, SOMETHING has won the Sheila Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, the Silver Award for 2010 Poetry Book of the Year from ForeWord Magazine, the 2010 da Vinci Eye Award, and Honorable Mention for the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award. "Patricia Fargnoli...does not miss a stitch of beauty, neither does she avoid the darker aspects of our own human awareness of our continual aging, to which she gives sharp and poignant attention. I have been her champion since her first book Necessary Light was published, and I continue to be so"--Mary Oliver.
- GenresPoetry
76 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Patricia Fargnoli
12 books21 followersPatricia Fargnoli is a former NH Poet Laureate (term: 12/06-03/09). The author of 5 award-winning books of poetry and 3 chapbooks, she's been awarded The May Swenson Book Award (judged by Mary Oliver), The NH Jane Kenyon Literary Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry, ForeWords Silver Poetry Book Award, the Shelia Mooton Book Award, The Frost Foundation Award, an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Art, and a Macdowell fellowship.
Her work has been published widely in journals such as: Poetry, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, Rattle, Nimrod and others.
She has taught private poetry classes and in Elderhostels and the Keene State College Lifelong Learning Program. And is available for manuscript critiquing and private tutorials.
A retired social-worker, psycho-therapist, she lives in Walpole, NH
Her work has been published widely in journals such as: Poetry, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, Rattle, Nimrod and others.
She has taught private poetry classes and in Elderhostels and the Keene State College Lifelong Learning Program. And is available for manuscript critiquing and private tutorials.
A retired social-worker, psycho-therapist, she lives in Walpole, NH
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March 19, 2010
Loving it so far. Awe struck and amazed!
October 4, 2009
This book of poetry sings beautifully from a deep place in the soul, Patricia captures the illusive through careful observation of nature and processing what is is to grow older. I love her poems and have many marked lines which I will return to.
Her opening poem, "Wherever you are going," is about exiting the world and it is a meditation that coaches us to, "...take nothing./Take less than nothing and even less than that."
Her second poem, "On the Question of the Soul," makes me cry in her equisive ending stanzas, " It is the no color of rain/as if it sweeps a field on an August morning/full of fences and wildflowers.//It is the shifting of light across the surface/of any lake, the shadows that move like muskrats/across a mountain whose shape mimics the clouds above.//Weighted down by the vested interests/of the body, it nevertheless bears us forward."
In the center of the book is a 15 part poem titled: "Permaquid Variations." She has several references to Dante throughout this book. I know when I go back to read her book after reading Dante her words will be illuminated even further. This incredibly deep poetry grips me in my body and mind even without having read Dante.
Her poem "Lullaby for the Woman who Walks into the Sea" is a beautiful poem that repeats the last lines at the beginning of the following stanza. The use of the name Orphan is haunting.
Her opening poem, "Wherever you are going," is about exiting the world and it is a meditation that coaches us to, "...take nothing./Take less than nothing and even less than that."
Her second poem, "On the Question of the Soul," makes me cry in her equisive ending stanzas, " It is the no color of rain/as if it sweeps a field on an August morning/full of fences and wildflowers.//It is the shifting of light across the surface/of any lake, the shadows that move like muskrats/across a mountain whose shape mimics the clouds above.//Weighted down by the vested interests/of the body, it nevertheless bears us forward."
In the center of the book is a 15 part poem titled: "Permaquid Variations." She has several references to Dante throughout this book. I know when I go back to read her book after reading Dante her words will be illuminated even further. This incredibly deep poetry grips me in my body and mind even without having read Dante.
Her poem "Lullaby for the Woman who Walks into the Sea" is a beautiful poem that repeats the last lines at the beginning of the following stanza. The use of the name Orphan is haunting.
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