Navigating the Quiet Descent: Collection/Recollection
Collectively, this small book of poems provides more insight into the experience of living with Alzheimer's disease than do most medical textbooks. The Alzheimer's journey unfolds through Julie Taylor Green's lyric to her loving partner, Mardee. The writing is insightful and so profoundly revealing that sometimes it is unclear in whose mind of these two loving partners we are immersed. A volume to be learned from and cherished.
-Stuart Zola, Ph.D., neuroscientist
An exquisitely intimate account of the losses that accompany Alzheimer's disease - "a keychain," a "button," "a blue bead," a street, a face, a name, a life. Poet Julie Taylor Green's words gradually give way to the silence between them. In that silence, we understand "this is where the longing lives," in the liminal space "between twilight and dark," the place of letting go and saying goodbye.
-Brooke Herter James, winner, the Fish Poetry Prize
One way to think about the act of remembering is to see it not as merely recalling, but as literally re-membering: putting something back together again. To reconstruct. To rebuild. In this tender and lyrical first collection, Green remembers not only the past, but also the present moment, reflecting on a partner's growing mental decline, while exploring the beauty and eternity of each moment. As Blake once wrote, Green sees eternity in a grain of sand, and perhaps that single granular moment is all that we have in this transitory world.
-Jeff Newberry, author, How to Talk about the Dead
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