Fearless Debut Collection of Poetry

CUMBERLAND, Maine - June 9, 2016 - PRLog -- One of several new titles from Deerbrook Editions

Once It Stops, Florence Fogelin
Deerbrook Editions
Poetry 6 x 9 paper
$16.95.   ISBN: 978-0-9904287-7-0

Rarely is a debut collection described as "fearless,"  "the real deal," showing "voracious intelligence" - especially when the poet has reached 80 years. Florence Fogelin's lyric poetry, informed by a "nomad's telescope," focuses on desire and mortality, marriage and place.  Like "stone masons chipping at perplexity," she crafts a journey - from Vermont to Sicily, from  tearing down a boathouse to talking with Sappho on a NYC subway - finding "the eternal hope seen in every graveyard"  while "doubting the existence of guardrails."

Praise for Once It Stops: Fogelin's poems amaze with range; her voracious intelligence encompasses stinging societal critiques: "Washington's smooth face expresses a way to remember,/a why to forget" and "slouching, buttless boys who somehow manage/to keep their pants on"; and beauty: "a farm house … hangs by a thread of wood smoke"; the philosophical and cosmic, high and low: an "up-thrust middle finger… outlasts a pope." Compassion and fearless self-implication balance her dark wit: "I lifted up the scab and peeked/to see the future."          - April Ossmann

Florence Fogelin brings us "teetering between desire and fear" to the top of a Mayan Temple, onto San Francisco Bay, to "the cell of a medieval monk/freshly pocked with bullet holes." These exuberant, well-honed poems exhort us to "step on the gas/ and race toward light's longest day."          - Laura Foley

Florence Fogelinis the author of the chapbook, Facing the Light  (Redgreene Press), and her poems have been featured in numerous poetry journals including The Florida Review; anthologies including The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Frost Place (CavanKerry Press); and on the websites of Poetry Daily and Women's Voices for Change. She lives in White River Junction, VT.

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