Not Only / But Also - Softcover

Valerie Mendes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943900183 ISBN 13: 9781943900183

Publisher: Duck Lake Books

Not Only / But Also is book of poetry in which Anne Higgins looks back at youth and life's trials and joys with the wisdom of age. Her poems echo the canon of English poetry in a unique honesty beyond mere allusion. She has absorbed the lessons of Shakespeare, Milton, Hopkins, Dickinson and Blake and filtered them back to us in slices of contemporary American life, the cruelty of musical chairs, the joy of hopscotch, the agony of aging and loss. She Not Only / But Also stakes her claim to the heart of American poetry.

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About the Author:

Anne Higgins teaches English at Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She has had over one hundred poems published in a variety of print and online magazines. Her poems were featured several times on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.

Review:

"Sr. Anne Higgins' poetry is infused with the abundance of God's grace in this world--the beauties of childhood, the 'fragrant names' of flowers in the courtyard garden, the touch of satin, but this does not mean that she ignores the occasional darkness--whether it be the challenges of aging or a father with Alzheimer's or a boy having a tantrum in a hushed library or the pain of absence after a death. These are poems that reveal the holy, as all good poetry does, and grapple with life's ambiguities, as all the best poetry should."

Jill Baumgaertner
Wheaton College
former editor of The Christian Century

"Anne Higgins' poems announce the glory of every living thing, at every stage of its living. These poems come with the pin-prick details of Emily Dickinson and the embracing width of Walt Whitman... [these poems] offer us a way of seeing the world beyond good and bad, in the direction of wisdom."

Joseph Ross

Ache (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017)

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