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Geri Radacsi takes us on a remarkable personal journey experiencing the many facets of love with her husband, through the toils of care and sorrow during his battle with cancer, to the memories of their long life together and her grief at his passing. But the poems also encompass art, dance, music, conversations with God, childhood memories, humor, and pure joy, all told through strikingly original images. It is ultimately a transformative journey. If you love language, if you love life, if you love love, take this journey with Geri. --Tom Nicotera

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In ""Body Cry"" and throughout this book, the poems say in wrenching and plaintive phrases: Hear my love. Bless the words. -Margaret Gibson, Connecticut Poet Laureate My Oarsman portrays the fullness of life and loss and is, at once, devastating and affirming. We leave these pages having come to know a couple in their dark moments and lighthearted ones over the course of decades. Then-and the poems are unflinching-one dies. The other remains, testifying in one carefully wrought poem after another to how ravenous emotion can be, how telling, how fulfilling, how desolating, yet always crucial, always sensitive to the stature of long-standing love. -Baron Wormser, Maine Poet Laureate (2000-2006) I've read and enjoyed and marveled over all of Geri Radacsi's previous books: her feel for just the right image, or the inventive way she plays out her metaphors, or finds the right voice for her subject matter. But this new book-about her married life of fifty-four years with her husband John, her care for him as his cancer worsened, and her grief after he died-is a brave and loving testimony both to her married life and to the writer's dilemma: all the words (and this writer employs all her powers here) a writer conjures up cannot keep death and sorrow from their calling. This book bravely faces the ""furies"" that ""make"" and ""unmake"" their life together. -Robert Cording, author of Only So Far Geri Radacsi's My Oarsman is a visionary, richly lyrical, nearly unparalleled testament to the power of love, as well as a fierce outcry of grief about what love is not able to bring about in the face of death. As her husband's companion through his long process of dying, Radacsi bears witness to every nuance of his suffering, his bravery in it and-with deep tenderness, spiritual fortitude, and, at times, humor-to the fast connection they enjoyed throughout their lives.This moving elegy is a distinguished achievement by an already accomplished poet at the height of her talent, baring her beautiful, burst-open heart. -Susan Deborah King, author of Moon Dance: Island Poems

"In ""Body Cry"" and throughout this book, the poems say in wrenching and plaintive phrases: Hear my love. Bless the words. -Margaret Gibson, Connecticut Poet Laureate My Oarsman portrays the fullness of life and loss and is, at once, devastating and affirming. We leave these pages having come to know a couple in their dark moments and lighthearted ones over the course of decades. Then-and the poems are unflinching-one dies. The other remains, testifying in one carefully wrought poem after another to how ravenous emotion can be, how telling, how fulfilling, how desolating, yet always crucial, always sensitive to the stature of long-standing love. -Baron Wormser, Maine Poet Laureate (2000-2006) I've read and enjoyed and marveled over all of Geri Radacsi's previous books: her feel for just the right image, or the inventive way she plays out her metaphors, or finds the right voice for her subject matter. But this new book-about her married life of fifty-four years with her husband John, her care for him as his cancer worsened, and her grief after he died-is a brave and loving testimony both to her married life and to the writer's dilemma: all the words (and this writer employs all her powers here) a writer conjures up cannot keep death and sorrow from their calling. This book bravely faces the ""furies"" that ""make"" and ""unmake"" their life together. -Robert Cording, author of Only So Far Geri Radacsi's My Oarsman is a visionary, richly lyrical, nearly unparalleled testament to the power of love, as well as a fierce outcry of grief about what love is not able to bring about in the face of death. As her husband's companion through his long process of dying, Radacsi bears witness to every nuance of his suffering, his bravery in it and-with deep tenderness, spiritual fortitude, and, at times, humor-to the fast connection they enjoyed throughout their lives.This moving elegy is a distinguished achievement by an already accomplished poet at the height of her talent, baring her beautiful, burst-open heart. -Susan Deborah King, author of Moon Dance: Island Poems"

In Body Cry and throughout this book, the poems say in wrenching and plaintive phrases: Hear my love. Bless the words. -Margaret Gibson, Connecticut Poet Laureate My Oarsman portrays the fullness of life and loss and is, at once, devastating and affirming. We leave these pages having come to know a couple in their dark moments and lighthearted ones over the course of decades. Then-and the poems are unflinching-one dies. The other remains, testifying in one carefully wrought poem after another to how ravenous emotion can be, how telling, how fulfilling, how desolating, yet always crucial, always sensitive to the stature of long-standing love. -Baron Wormser, Maine Poet Laureate (2000-2006) I've read and enjoyed and marveled over all of Geri Radacsi's previous books: her feel for just the right image, or the inventive way she plays out her metaphors, or finds the right voice for her subject matter. But this new book-about her married life of fifty-four years with her husband John, her care for him as his cancer worsened, and her grief after he died-is a brave and loving testimony both to her married life and to the writer's dilemma: all the words (and this writer employs all her powers here) a writer conjures up cannot keep death and sorrow from their calling. This book bravely faces the furies that make and unmake their life together. -Robert Cording, author of Only So Far Geri Radacsi's My Oarsman is a visionary, richly lyrical, nearly unparalleled testament to the power of love, as well as a fierce outcry of grief about what love is not able to bring about in the face of death. As her husband's companion through his long process of dying, Radacsi bears witness to every nuance of his suffering, his bravery in it and-with deep tenderness, spiritual fortitude, and, at times, humor-to the fast connection they enjoyed throughout their lives.This moving elegy is a distinguished achievement by an already accomplished poet at the height of her talent, baring her beautiful, burst-open heart. -Susan Deborah King, author of Moon Dance: Island Poems

Author Information

Geri Radacsi's prize-winning chapbook, Ancient Music, was published by Pecan Grove Press; and she is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Trapped in Amber (Connecticut River Press), Tightrope Walker (Antrim House), and Soul and All That Jazz (Finishing Line Press). She has been a journalist, English teacher, communication/media specialist, and freelance writer. She is Associate Director of University Relations, Emerita, at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Connecticut. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, is the 2003 winner of the Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize, and has won several awards from the Connecticut Poetry Society. In 2004 she was a finalist in the Comstock Review, Blue Light Press and Owl Creek poetry contests. A Farmington, Connecticut resident, she and her late husband, John, were married 54 years. Their daughter, Sara, has been a continuous source of inspiration and support as have her husband Matthew, and children Patia, Anika, and Alex.

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