The Sanctity of the Moment

by Heather Tosteson

This powerful collection of poems spans the major stages of a woman's life-adolescence, early marriage and divorce, single motherhood, family life and its dissolution, late love, encroaching mortality, and the mysterious, obsessive, and ultimately healing returns of early trauma-and does so with an equally tenacious sense of the sanctity of this moment, and this one alone, in all its redeeming particulars. "We want to know," writes the poet, "what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979655293
• ISBN13: 9780979655296
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Wising Up Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"