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Songs Sharp and Tender

Songs Sharp and Tender
Poems by Carol L. Park

 
 
Follow this grandmother’s journey with mini-stories in poetry, illuminating her transformation from her fundamentalist beginnings towards a liberated mindset; from whiteness to an intercultural, artistic self. Poetic vignettes delve into identity, culture, radical acceptance, and learning to thrive in a marriage to an autistic man born to Korean American parents of Hawaii.

The poems in Songs Sharp and Tender also speak to the losses we experience as parents as our children age. Dilemmas caused by California’s fires and political divides appear also.  Nature’s power of healing and illumination show up—all accompanied by the authenticity, vulnerability, anger, grief and empathy essential to our spiral up the tree of life.

As a reader whom I only met once proclaimed: “Everyone should read this book.”

Available from the publisher, Kelsay Books, or from Amazon.

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