Parting Glass

poems

Lisa J. Parker

• Publisher: Madville Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781956440164
• eBook ISBN: 9781956440171
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

A toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home.This item is ReturnableAdditional InformationBISAC Categories: - Poetry | American | General- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss- Poetry | Women AuthorsINGRAM Categories: - Topical | Death/Dying- Sex & Gender | Feminine- Topical | Women's InterestPhysical Info: 0.21" H x 9.0" L x 6.0" W (0.3 lbs) 86 pagesCarton Quantity: 82Number of Units in Package: 1Worth ConsideringDescriptions, Reviews, Etc.Review Quotes: As haunting as the Irish ballad for which it is named, The Parting Glass is a book of searing elegies and unforgettable odes to moments of joy shared in tranquil places. Whole worlds emerge and collide in these poems, experiences as rich as the black bread offered by the Ukrainian neighbor to the "Hillbilly Transplant" in New York City. Many of us from Appalachia will relate to her fish-out-of-water adventures and heartbreaks, missing family back home but also feeling the electric thrill of subway rides and all-night restaurants. Lisa J. Parker has created a deep and nuanced book that would have made the late Arthur Smith proud, and I cannot imagine a more worthy first entry for the poetry award named in his honor. I have felt tears welling in the corners of my eyes more than once when I come to the lines, "the surreality of that meager box / with its pewter top, your name punched into it." The Parting Glass offers enormous heart and soul in the face of unbearable grief, survivable only through a sense of belonging to a place and its people and by committing to words those memories that affirm what we have lost.-Jesse Graves, author of Merciful Days and Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and PlaceLisa Parker possesses the perceptive eye of a photographer and the truth-telling, visionary voice of a poet. From the orange trumpet vines and sycamore trees of northern Virginia to the "crushed velvet walls" of the Metropolitan Opera, each precise, wondrous image in The Parting Glass transports the reader. As Parker shows us how to look at these beautiful, sometimes broken, sometimes aching landscapes, she tells an important story about the places we call home, the terrible weight of grief, and love-always love.-Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest StarThese are poems of loss, displacement, and deep grief, yet they are shot through with light, in particular the illumination that comes with beautiful writing. There is not one wasted word in this moving, intelligent, and timely collection of poems that stand perfectly on their own yet sing even louder as an entire gathering. The Parting Glass is a marvel of a book.-Silas House, New York Times bestselling author of Lark AscendingPublisher Marketing: The Parting Glass, like the old Irish song, is a toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. However Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home. At its core, this book brings the thread of downhome with its voices and song, to the cities and cultures the author moves through. The poems raise a glass to those still at the table and to those already gone, to homecomings and deployments, to the navigation of love and grief.Contributor Bio: Parker, Lisa JLisa Parker is a native Virginian, a poet, musician, and photographer. Her first book, This Gone Place, won the 2010 ASA Weatherford Award and her work is widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Her photography has been on exhibit in NYC and published in several arts journals and anthologies. She has worked in the Department of Defense for nearly twenty years, worked as a first responder for 15 years, and currently serves as a crisis and disaster response volunteer with Team Rubicon. Some of her work may be found at www.wheatpark.com.Email other people about this product detailSeparate multiple addresses with semicolons.Mail to: Copy me on this email: Subject: Message: SendResetQty 1Add to Quick OrderView/Edit CartShips when available *DCOn HandOn Order TNThis is your PRIMARY Distribution Center890 INThis is your SECONDARY Distribution Center00

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Lessons on Trees
• What We Kill to Save
• Prevarication
• Big K Radio: Snow Day
• Ars Poetica: Northern Virginia
• The Preacher’s Daughter Studies Her Reflection
• You Can’t Leave It When You Go
• Hillbilly Transplant: Starling in Gingko
• Hillbilly Transplant: Seeing Child on Junction Boulevard Subway Platform
• Hillbilly Transplant: Where I Live
• Hillbilly Transplant Writes “Where I’m From” Exercise with Imposter Narrative
• Hillbilly Transplant: New Home
• Hillbilly Transplant: In 72nd Street Subway Tunnel a Meditation on Home
• Hillbilly Transplant: Seed and Scatter
• Hillbilly Transplant: Pondering Park Dominoes and the Death of Celia Cruz
• Hillbilly Transplant: Working at the Metropolitan Opera
• Contrapuntal: Driving as the Flood Comes
• Benefaction
• Under the Sugar Moon
• Under the Flower Moon: What We Plant
• Tracer
• Heaving
• Deployment: Homefront
• At the VA
• Beautiful
• Cleave
• Zebras Through the Fire
• Painting of Grief: Exhibit of Aztec Goddess at the Met
• Hillbilly Transplant: Bethesda Fountain, Central Park
• In Ithaca Reflecting on the Death of Poet Kathryn Stripling Byer
• Hillbilly Transplant Finds No Frame of Reference
• Thus Always to Tyrants
• Hillbilly Transplant: Upper West Side, October 10, 2001
• Smoke, Salt, Sweet
• Observations of Escape
• Memorial Day
• [Us]
• Solace: What Slips the Horizon
• Pandemic Months
• Pandemic Months: And Still All Around Us
• Flash
• Republic 2017-2020
• Cannery in Seasons
• Passing of Grief
• What Becomes of Song
• Publications
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author