Every morning, I’m given a fresh start. The gift of a new day. I can see the sunrise, feel the wind on my face, hear the one I love saying my name. I can make today matter.
Fresh start
Where the Butterflies Go Review in iBOOKS (four stars): ‘These poems are like a key’
‘A willful and successful destruction of boundaries’ **** (4 stars)
by Shawn Halayka, Dec. 24, 2011 under Where the Butterflies Go in iBOOKS
Anima and animus. Love and sorrow. Past and present. An array of dualities are presented to us in these poems, accurately depicting both the beauty and horror of life at the same time in a masterful way that gives no ground to useless pretense or extraneous detail. Most importantly to me, these dualities are not presented as paradoxical or contradictory, but rather wholly integrated. The end result is quite illuminating.
What really hit home for me were the poems about Challenger/Columbia and the tragedy of Di. These specific poems are deceptively short — it may have only taken a few minutes to read them, but then it took me much longer to process the resulting flood of memories related to my own childhood and young adulthood. These poems are like a key, and one’s own life is the vault.
I can only assume that some sort of fancy voodoo magic was implemented by the author, because I am fully enchanted by these poems. Superb work, as usual.
‘Leap’ and ‘Where the Butterflies Go’ now on the Nook!
If you’ve wanted to download my poetry collections but haven’t had the right reader, now
you have one more option.
Both collections are now in Nook Books:
Leap $2.99:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/leap-heather-grace-stewart/1105701686
Where the Butterflies Go $1.99:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-the-butterflies-go-heather-grace-stewart/1019259772?ean=9781257231089&itm=1&usri=where%2bthe%2bbutterflies%2bgo
Leap remains #4 in Poetry on Lulu.com as an epub for most ereaders, and #4 in iBooks ~Paid Poetry for the iPad and iPhone and iPod touch, here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/leap/id442076340?mt=11
Where the Butteflies Go is holding it’s own in the Top 100 and both books remain in ‘What’s Hot’ in Poetry in the U.S. and Canadian iBookstores. Wow! Thanks for all your support.
The books in the Nook Bookstore are looking somewhat sad, with no star-ratings or reviews yet. Hope some of you can step up and help me out there?
Of course, both books remain in print at Lulu.com and Amazon.com and Bn.com and I’m always happy to ship autographed copies to you. Email me, and we’ll arrange for payment including shipping & handling via Paypal.
Thanks so much for reading – in print, or for going digital with me!
Heather
Fireside Reading Part II: Three poems from ‘Leap’
Fireside Reading of ‘The Fragile Parts’
Hey! Thanks for dropping by.
So, I finally did it. While preparing for my Oct. 1st reading at Paragraphe Bookstore in downtown Montreal, my husband videotaped my practice run in our home (in fact, I’ll embarrass him now and tell you all that he even set up a little candlelight café in our living room the night before, so he and our daughter could be the first to hear me read, in a café-like setting. Made my night).
I’d like to share my reading with those readers who weren’t able to attend and asked to see it. So, here’s Part I of what will be a four or five-part post (in 3 minute segments). I’ll post Part II today (Three poems from Leap), and save the other parts for another day. Someone did videotape the actual reading at Paragraphe Bookstore, too. I’ll share that on vimeo once I receive that clip.
There are some photos from the ‘PWAC READS’ event at my Facebook Author page, http://facebook.com/heathergracestewart
As always, thanks for reading, watching and commenting.
Heather Grace Stewart 