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"Lean Toward the Light is a summing up of a person who is physically old but young in mind and heart. The easy answers of youth are handed back to whatever takes them and the huge sense of wonder walks in to replace it. There is also the realization that other animals have been misunderstood and underestimated. No one died and left us in charge. Godbey's work has been praised by both well-known poets and Facebook readers. Robert Bly and US Poet Laureate Donald Hall praised his work and taught him. Godbey was a festival Poet for the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. He was the winner of a poetry contest by the Bellefonte Museum of Art. More importantly, perhaps, a recent reader of this manuscript said: ""Astounding."" In Godbey's poetry, each thing has a voice. A rock finally speaks. Grief tells the griever why she is there. The muse, a little fat guy in a pink tutu, tells the poet to get on the stick. Each thing talks. The color brown speaks of being like the youngest child whose birthday is forgotten. The dialectic between experiencing beauty and despair are brought into sharp focus. This poetry is not either-or but rather both-and. Always, Godbey strives for the beautiful-for leaning toward the light."

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"We are in the heart of poetry reading Geoffrey Godbey's newest book, Lean Toward the Light. His poems offer the gift of the ""extraordinary beauty of the world."" Through his lines, we join the poet as he becomes the ""Director of Trees, Superintendent of the Sky."" He reflects telling us to ""recognize the feast"" and know the extraordinariness of love as seen in ""She Can Mend."" The poet also dazzles us with poems of color and Jabberwocky lines. In each poem, Godbey returns to the wonder of life-in the matters of the heart or seeing a ""child's sparkler in darkness."" All are a journey through the poet's ""slightly open window."" His poems give us what we may have missed and now can have. In this book, we delight and hold the poetry of life in the arc of light Godbey so generously gives us.-Mary Shay McGuire, Author, Always the Blue Tide Turning, Kelsey Books, 2020"

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Geoffrey Godbey is a poet who resides in State College, Pennsylvania. His poems have published in The Nation, The World and I and many literary magazines. His poetry has also appeared in Zero Makes Me Hungry-A Collection of Poems for Today. (Scott Foresman), Reflections, (Scott Foresman), Remove the Blindfold: (Oxford University Press), and other school textbooks. In 2013, a chapbook of his poetry, Finding Home, was published by Finishing Line Press. In 2017, Past That, Still There was also published by Finishing Line Press.

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