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“ . . . tightly coiled imagery
. . . the simple elegance is breathtaking . . . the power is found in the
plain, quiet, forthright music of the poet’s own voice . . .”—John
Blanpied
“With simple eloquence,
Christopher paints haunting pictures. Pictures that allow the reader to
peer into the soul of a gifted, sometimes tortured spirit. . .
extraordinary . . . will touch the mind, soul, and heartstrings of a broad
spectrum of readers. . . . Christopher is an inspiration.”—Cheryl Brown,
Crisis Line of the Fox Valley
“ . . . eloquent expressions of
our humanness. . . . It is easy to relate to many of the poems as they
touch our heart and our spirit . . . Her poetry, so simply brilliant,
envelopes me as though I were in the womb, feeling safe and warm and
understood.”—Monica Sisco, LCSW
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About the Book:
Although we each
have an individual soul, there is a spirit that connects us all as
human beings. Sightings is about spirituality, of what it
means to be human.
This book does not
espouse any specific religious doctrine or theological stance. It
mixes genres and various figures even though, historically, they lived
at different times and in different places. Drawing on various
people, places, events, and forms from the ancient world to the
present time—as these join us—it educates us about the human spirit,
and how we are, and can be, better connected.
It is spirit song,
both in lined and prose poetry. Through these words we learn to sing
and to celebrate who we are.
About the Author:
Christopher Kuhl has roots in northern New York, and has taught
writing for seventeen years at the Illinois Mathematics and Science
Academy. She is now on her own, writing full time, and has published
a book of poems about her home county, Blood and Bone, River and
Stone: Memoirs of Lewis County. She has also published in several
journals. In her poetry, she is very image conscious and draws on
ancient myth and history mixed in with the contemporary. This
particular habit is well-suited to this book. Christopher currently
lives in northern Illinois with two rambunctious kittens who know how
to turn off the computer.
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