Laura Stevenson
‘A carefully crafted combination of mindful attention to detail and capacity for love’
Arlene Distler’s poetry collection ‘This Earth, This Body’ explores the transitory nature of all things
The title poem of Arlene Iris Distler's This Earth, This Body is drawn from “Sisters-A Love Poem,” which appears in the center of this wonderful, beautifully crafted collection by a Brattleboro writer.
The poem is one of a series portraying Distler's family (the “family/I was born into, a puzzle from the first/as much as I surely puzzled them”), and it deftly juxtaposes tenderness, grief, and difficult adult relationships.
Memory, music, and the cochlear implant
The connection between hearing and memory was simultaneously miraculous and inexplicable
As I start my car in the morning to drive to work, I hear in my head the opening measures of the Prelude of the Bach D minor cello suite. Pushing the waiting CD into its slot, I hear those measures in the same key that played in my...