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"Many seasons have handled the life of this poet, and her words are patched with grief and love, buckets of light and longing. In Quilt Life, Cindy Bosley's images have great depth because she refuses to shy away from hard truths. A seer of the natural world, she knows the heart's small ship must be rebuilt and not boxed for display. Her poems are ""not the easy kind of talk."" No. They show us the dark fluids boiling in what must never be forgotten, the human fragility of trying to remain whole. Jeanne Bryner The poems in Cindy Bosley's Quilt Life are constructed from the fabric of woman--body and soul and heart. Sensual and lush, the language ranges from the everyday--""I fell in love with Father Paul at Sunday mass when I was nine"" to the surreal--""My breasts are fat, lipsticked ladies from / the opera: year after year they sing each other//their most famous arias."" Quilt Life takes you into a dry, dusty Middle America and verdant tropics in poems of mystery and longing, desertion and death, poverty and grief. But these are also poems of fortitude, resilience, courage, and faith in love and the things that matter. Diane K. Martin"

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"The poems in Cindy Bosley's QUILT LIFE are constructed from the fabric of woman--body and soul and heart. Sensual and lush, the language ranges from the everyday--""I fell in love with Father Paul at Sunday mass when I was nine"" to the surreal--""My breasts are fat, lipsticked ladies from / the opera: year after year they sing each other//their most famous arias."" Quilt Life takes you into a dry, dusty Middle America and verdant tropics in poems of mystery and longing, desertion and death, poverty and grief. But these are also poems of fortitude, resilience, courage, and faith in love and the things that matter. Diane K. Martin The poems in QUILT LIFE focus deeply on desire--how women are taught by their families, their church, their intimate relationships that to desire is to risk being denied, or worse, to deserve lashing. The poems lay bare all the sacrifices women make to nurture and accommodate those they love and what happens when what we were taught would fulfill us is gone. Cindy Bosley's fine poems are also a condemnation of the cultural systems that fail to support women in any useful way. Yet, in the face of all life's brokenness, the poems insist on healing, on recovering, on seeking love, on making something downright beautiful out of all the shards. And they insist on desire, always desire. Leah Nielsen"

The poems in Cindy Bosley's QUILT LIFE are constructed from the fabric of woman--body and soul and heart. Sensual and lush, the language ranges from the everyday-- I fell in love with Father Paul at Sunday mass when I was nine to the surreal-- My breasts are fat, lipsticked ladies from / the opera: year after year they sing each other//their most famous arias. Quilt Life takes you into a dry, dusty Middle America and verdant tropics in poems of mystery and longing, desertion and death, poverty and grief. But these are also poems of fortitude, resilience, courage, and faith in love and the things that matter. Diane K. Martin The poems in QUILT LIFE focus deeply on desire--how women are taught by their families, their church, their intimate relationships that to desire is to risk being denied, or worse, to deserve lashing. The poems lay bare all the sacrifices women make to nurture and accommodate those they love and what happens when what we were taught would fulfill us is gone. Cindy Bosley's fine poems are also a condemnation of the cultural systems that fail to support women in any useful way. Yet, in the face of all life's brokenness, the poems insist on healing, on recovering, on seeking love, on making something downright beautiful out of all the shards. And they insist on desire, always desire. Leah Nielsen

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Cindy Bosley grew up in Ottumwa, Iowa, and is a long-time resident of Toledo, Ohio. In addition to poetry, Cindy Bosley is an essayist, quilter, and miniatures artist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her work has appeared widely. Her book The Siren Sonnets appeared in 2017.Cindy has taught writing a literature and works in the health care field. She shares her home with her youngest daughter and two cats.

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