Book description
Like the shifting and often turbulent skies of our own emotional
meteorology, Rhonda Batchelor's poems forecast the shifting patterns
of a marriage from quiet moments of a graceful dawn to stormy seas of
absence, from brilliant love-strewn sunshowers to dark moments of loss
and bitter nights upon the shore. In three sections, "Backbone of
the Moon", "Ghostly Dialogues" and "Still
Breathing", Batchelor explores the fleeting forever trilogy of
expectations, unions and releases that comprise the tidelike phases of
a lover's cycle. Dedicated to respected Canadian poet Charles Lillard,
Batchelor's late husband, this work keens to the notes of a personal
lament but emerges triumphantly healed and ultimately blessed.
Rhonda Batchelor is the author of two collections of poetry,
Bearings and Interpreting Silence. She has been
anthologized in Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of 1994,
Because You Loved Being a Stranger: 55 Poems Celebrate Patrick
Lane, and New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25. She lives
in Victoria, BC, and is the manager of The Hawthorne Bookshop. She is
also the publisher of Reference West chapbooks.
