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by Nancy Hewitt
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781646628995
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Finishing Line Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press
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  • Pages: 34
  • Original Price: USD 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 55 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

W.H. Auden says poetry is "a clear expression of mixed feelings," and that's one of the gifts in this compelling book of poems. Nancy Hewitt traces the movement from the constrictions of a 1950's childhood, content to draw within the lines, to an adult freedom in which she can say, "I use language to open the skies." The speaker does not shy away from trouble, but traces the complex entanglements of family narrative with insight and compassion. Art and travel become ways the world opens up for this speaker, as when she visits the Guggenheim and learns "the fine art of looking out and up." Indeed, she looks and sees with remarkable clarity. There's a fine tension here between the need for measure and the longing for abundance, and amazingly these poems give us both through their shapely forms and vivid moments of transport. Hewitt is a poet of rich vision and intelligence, and this is a beautiful book.

-Betsy Sholl, author of House of Sparrows



Nancy Hewitt's beautifully crafted chapbook begins in childhood and ends in wisdom. Visual art provides a frequent counterpoint to the harsh realities the poet remembers and, in the wider world, observes. Most centrally "there's the light offered up by words," which fill the poems with vivid images and narratives that will linger long in the reader's mind.

-Martha Collins



"No ideas but in things." Nancy Hewitt proves the point of that William Carlos Williams line in her new collection. Here are poems about a trailer park childhood where her parents' volatile marriage is on display. Here, many inventive prose and ekphrastic poems. Here, landscape poems of Barcelona and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, awash in oh, so much color and light, "the light offered up by words," as Hewitt says in her title poem. Her words, that light-here now for you.

-Moira Linehan, author of Toward and & Company


Hewitt, Nancy: - Nancy Hewitt's love of language, story and poetry evolved alongside her 35-year career as a clinical social worker. Her chapbook Heard was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review (Editor's Prize), Mid-American Review, Connecticut River Review, Phoebe Journal, Halcyone Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Ellipsis and other journals. Her chapbook This Slanted Scene was a finalist for The Poetry Box award in 2019. She has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and was the first Poet Laureate of Swampscott, MA. She finds inspiration in the Vermont countryside, in art and in travel.

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