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Actual blizzards are rare in Tennessee (thank goodness!), but the chaos of living can feel as bewildering as a blizzard sometimes, for all of us. Poet and memoirist Joy Harjo grapples with this all-too-human confusion in her new collection of prose, Catching the Light, and finds the antidote in art. “It is the singers, poets, and storytellers who are captured by the expression of this eternal drama, and with language, metaphor, timing, and melody create meaningful shape. What is repetitive and ordinary becomes flowers blooming in a blizzard.” Read more about the book in Jane Marcellus' review of Catching the Light, up today at Chapter 16.
Last week, we shared a lovely essay from Wayne Christeson, "The Leiper's Fork Way"; Erica Ciccarone interviewed Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern U.S. Alora Young about her debut memoir in verse, Walking Gentry Home; Susannah Felts considered Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson; and Tina Chambers reviewed The Decomposition of Jack, a new middle-grade book from Kristen O'Donnell Tubb.
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