Free! NoiseTrade's Memorial Day fave

Filed under: On Books & WritingAnne M. Doe OverstreetFree BookNoiseTradePoetry

How about celebrating with a free ebook?

(Well, it's free if you want. You can also leave a tip if you want to show the author some love.)

NoiseTrade's Will Hodge has a recommendation for your Memorial Day weekend download at NoiseTrade.

He writes:

Delicate Machinery Suspended

Hey, it's a holiday weekend.

Delicate Machinery SuspendedHarvesting Fog

Need some more persuasion?

Scott Cairns, author of Slow Pilgrim, Short Trip to the Edge, and Compass of Affection writes:

To love well is to offer one's full attention. To serve others is often a matter of drawing their attention to the beauties--broken, wounded, suggestive, profound--that visit us endlessly. Anne Overstreet loves well, and she serves well; she is the witness of the dawn, and of our desired awakening.

Gregory Wolfe, editor at Image Journal, writes:

These poems shimmer with gossamer lightness but also possess the strength and sinews of hard-won wisdom and what Henry James called felt life.

And John Wilson, editor at Books and Culture, writes this:

"I look up to take it in," Anne Overstreet writes, and so she does: Dead moths "go to dust / on the windowsill, a wing fading / to a translucent brown sail, prepared / around the absence of body." She takes it all in, and gives it back to us.

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