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Among the more quotable quotes which grace the pages of Lois Parker Edstrom's seminal collection, A Fragile Light, is this by Henry Havelock Ellis: ""The Art of Living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."" Indeed, the light truly is fragile, as we seek meaning in the world that surrounds us. However, Edstrom has found her way by using the medium of poetry. Whether one chooses poems about Washington state's breathtaking coastal scenes of water, sailing, birds, fishes, and fauna, or poems that compare ""the grace of architecture"" to inspiring musical compositions. . .this gifted poet invites us to walk with her into life's fragile light. ""White Peony"" focuses on the very nature of poetry, ""Teach me about poetry, she said. / I don't understand. // Perhaps there is nothing to teach. / I can only share what comes out of silence, // how a poet tries to make something / from the rags of this world."" This collection is a triumph! -Michael Escoubas, author of Ripples Into the Light-PhotoPoetry, with artist Vandana Bajikar

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Lois Parker Edstrom, a retired nurse, is the author of two chapbooks and seven full-length collections of poetry, including Night Beyond Black, Glint, The Lesson of Plums, and The Language of Tides, published by MoonPath Press. She has received two Hackney Literary Awards, the Outrider Press Grand Prize, the Westmoreland Award, and the Benefactor's Award from Whidbey Island Writers Association. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac, and featured in TedKooser's ""American Life in Poetry."" Edstrom's career in nursing and her poetic passion coalesced when her poetry appeared in Poems in the Waiting Room, a publication furnished to hospitals and doctors' offices in New Zealand. Her poetry has been translated into Braille and adapted to dance by the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company. The natural beauty of Whidbey Island, where she lives with her husband, inspires much of her work. Lana Hechtman Ayers, a former New Yorker who made her way to the Pacific Northwest via a dozen year sojourn in New England, has shepherded over a hundred forty poetry volumes into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in Rattle, The London Reader, Peregrine, and elsewhere. Lana's latest collection, The Autobiography of Rain, is available from Fernwood Press. She lives in Newport, Oregon on the unceded lands of the Yaqo'n people with her husband and several fur babies. She writes in a room over the garage with a view of the Yaquina river. Say hello at LanaAyers.com

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