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Art and personal family tragedy are canvases of this poet's remarkable collection, Too Heavy for Angels. These poems refer to art while creating profound portraits of of life's inalienable hardships and griefs but leaving the reader breathless with its beauty as well. In her book Too Heavy for Angels, Victoria Wyttenberg does the impossible: Celebrates life even when life includes unimaginable pain. With the steady hand of a painter, Wyttenberg ushers us through the deaths of her parents, husband, sister, and two adult children, all the while celebrating the beauty of the world even from the dark cave of loss. This book is a light for us to hold, be healed, and be guided by. -Matthew Dickman, author of Husbandry

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In her book Too Heavy for Angels, Victoria Wyttenberg does the impossible: Celebrates life even when life includes unimaginable pain. With the steady hand of a painter, Wyttenberg ushers us through the deaths of her parents, husband, sister, and two adult children, all the while celebrating the beauty of the world even from the dark cave of loss. This book is a light for us to hold, be healed, and be guided by. -Matthew Dickman, author of Husbandry

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Victoria Wyttenberg grew up in Southern Oregon, then moved to Portland, where she lives now. She taught English at the high school level for over thirty years. After retirement from the Beaverton School District, she began taking classes in drawing and painting while continuing to write. She won the Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest and the Academy of American Poets' Harold Taylor Prize at University ofWashington. Her poem ""Blue Heron"" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in various journals, including Clackamas Literary Review, Cloudbank, Hubbub, The Malahat Review, Poetry Northwest, Portland Review, Seattle Review, Willow Springs, and others. Victoria Wyttenberg is the author of a previous collection of poems, A Bird Watching (MoonPath Press). Lana Hechtman Ayers shepherded over a hundred fifty poetry volumes into print in her role as managing editor for three small presses. Her work appears in such journals as The London Reader, Peregrine, and The Comstock Review, as well as in her latest collection, The Autobiography of Rain (Fernwood Press, 2024). Visit her online at LanaAyers.com or say hello @lanaayers23 on BlueSky.

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