Fragments of the Universe: Poems

By Pat Andrus and Bingh

New from BLUE VORTEX PUBLISHERS, "Fragments of the Universe" by Pat L. Andrus. Why should your read this book of Poetry? Here's why: Opening Pat Andrus's Fragments of the Universe, one encounters a creative intelligence, a smart sensitivity, and a sheer commitment to the arts in a woman whose life is richly lived. She is a wordsmith firmly rooted in her landscape. Whether poetic or political, Andrus leaves her mark: this woman of Irish blood, a mother, mover, activist, and poet in twenty-first century America. This spangled collection, which spans over two-and-a-half decades, sings. Ecstatic, giddy, the words of "Raptures in Red" nearly fly off the page; or a mother-daughter bonding moment where "I then heard love / inside a baby's throat / crying for milk / for mother's smell / for the lungs of forever;" distraught over the 2016 election results, "where birds / hesitate / to chirp, / or leave their sturdy nests, / in this cha-os / of broken moons / of choked thunder": we have a variegated patchwork of au-tobiography and of the universal. Flung into the clean spring air in a small room in San Diego, the poems were then collected in the order in which they fell. Accidental--yet with a mysterious logic of the Universe--here they are. Here, these shiny fragments: "This, you pronounce, / is the end of us," the speaker in "Denouement" announces, gravely. BUT! But "[i]f tomorrow is the day / then bathe me tonight. / Fold me in red silk / before you depart. / I'll wake up tomorrow / and crawl for my soul, / ask my bone spirit / to gather me whole." ~Bingh, Editor

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1076726356
• ISBN13: 9781076726353
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"