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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RAIN IBD

FERNWOOD PRESS
08 / 2024
9781594981388
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Sinopsis

The poems in Lana Hechtman AyersâÇÖáThe Autobiography of Raináexplore the healing powers of art and nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is as ripe with beauty. It is in the most stricken moments that we are most open to beauty and to the concepts of life and the infinite. TheyâÇÖre entwined, and only as we grow and finally mature, is the both-sided coin revealed.áI am the moonâÇÖs dark side Ayers writes as an adult pondering her-and our-place in this world.áOnce, sheádreamt of being the horizonáand now she implores,áask me about the rain. How to drink it in and in and in /áand never drown.We wonder when our big moment will come as we prepare for epiphanies and actualization, but the secret truth that Ayers shares throughoutáThe Autobiography of Raináis thatábig moments always come small, andáevery moment is available to us.áWe donâÇÖt have to wait-Any lit wick // that brightens without / burn, suffices. Ayers is hoping that today is the day you realize it, so you can look back the next day and remember that you,ásaid I love youáto our fragile Earth, /said I love you, I love youáto the universe. 'Poetry' is the answer to every question Ayers ever asked, and she implores you toásave yourselfá/áin the quiet hoursá/áone kind word at a time.