Solo Crossing

By Cynthia Navaretta

A memoir in poems of the journey through separation and divorce to a new life beyond. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1877675318
• ISBN13: 9781877675317
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Midmarch Arts Pr
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Poet for Everyone

Ms. Campbell's imagery is evocative and yet accessible. While maintaining a distinctly imaginative voice throughout the collection, the poems are etched deeply in a life which could be anyone's. Whether young or old, in love or out, we all know loss, and this poet tells a story which is important to hear.

A Solo Crossing that Invites Everyone

The strength of these poems goes far beyond the all-too-human experience of divorce and betrayal. Here is a rich poetic voice, fresh in metaphor (from Crocuses: Synchronized/as infant birds straining gullets), and fearless in romantic honesty (from Airborne: My mother, 72,/turns to the handsome man seated beside/her on the plane./I bet you were hoping to sit next to/an attractive young blonde./Smiling, he replies, I am.) These poems are ringingly lyrical and unselfconscious, sometimes a bit spare and clipped, but always redeemed by their music.

She must have loved him a lot

On reading her poems my heart resonated. At some I cried. I did not want to, but she plucked that exact string and I was transported instantaneously into the feelings of my own divorce. What more can you ask for in an author?

Not just divorce poetry

Although Meg Campbell's book SOLO CROSSING contains mention of her divorce, many of the most wonderful poems are about her childhood and her parents. In "Pomegranates" she writes about fifth grade and her father. In "Airborne," about her mother: "My mother, 72/turns to the handsome man seated beside her on the plane/"I bet you were hoping to sit next to an attractive young blond."/Smiling, he replies "I am."

Remarkable poems about divorce and renewal

Meg Campbell's poems trace her passage from denial and disillusionment to stunned acceptance to spiritual rebirth. Lyrical, honest, funny and bittersweet, they touch your head and your heart.