Overview
Lifting Stones is an autobiography of sorts; a travel journal where the poet travels in nature and into memories of love, hope, grief, and loss. ""Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards,"" wrote Søren Kierkegaard, and this is the genesis of Stanfield's collection. His poems understand a life by looking back along the trail, seeing clearly for the first time, stacking personal, grounded word formations like rock cairns left for the next traveler: a way for stones, and words, to live forward.
Full Product Details
Author: Doug Stanfield
Publisher: Rootstock Publishing
Imprint: Rootstock Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.154kg
ISBN: 9781578690589
ISBN 10: 1578690587
Pages: 108
Publication Date: 08 June 2021
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Lifting Stones is a tender artistry...it is a singular collection of clarity, warmth, grief, humour, agony, mortality, recollection, despair, and rebirth. It is an expedition, not a journey's end. It is a unique work of life via poetry, a kaleidoscopic gallery of this poet's genuine experience laid bare. -Mandi Greenwood, author of Six Steps Down, Caught Inside, and The Silver Renoir Doug Stanfield writes of love and grief and of a kaleidoscope of emotions in between. He is a deft and sensitive chronicler of the human condition and of the world we live in, crafting poetical images with great sensitivity and skill. -Iffat Shah, physician and writer
"""Lifting Stones is a tender artistry...it is a singular collection of clarity, warmth, grief, humour, agony, mortality, recollection, despair, and rebirth. It is an expedition, not a journey's end. It is a unique work of life via poetry, a kaleidoscopic gallery of this poet's genuine experience laid bare."" -Mandi Greenwood, author of Six Steps Down, Caught Inside, and The Silver Renoir ""Doug Stanfield writes of love and grief and of a kaleidoscope of emotions in between. He is a deft and sensitive chronicler of the human condition and of the world we live in, crafting poetical images with great sensitivity and skill."" -Iffat Shah, physician and writer"
Author Information
Doug Stanfield grew up in western Ohio as the son of a teacher and a nurse. After many years working in journalism and public relations, he is now retired and writes poetry in western Washington, at the base of the Olympic Mountains. He was a finalist for author of the year with the Annual Spillwords Press Awards in 2019. Lifting Stones is his third book of poetry. Visit his blog, hemmingplay.com.
