![]() ![]() Anthony Abbott, author of The Angel Dialogues ![]() In addition to the sea, two wonderful figures-the ever present, nurturing mother and the imaginative, dancing, miraculous daughter-dominate the book, their presence reminding us that in the midst of tragedy, life renews itself daily through things as simple as a walk on the shore, the picking up of a shell, the rhythm of the retreating waves, the opening of the heart. ![]() ![]() The Beach Poems by Ann Campanella is not only a beautiful book, it is a redemptive book, centering on the mysterious spiritual power of the sea itself leading the soul to find itself again after a long period dominated by duty and restraint. Terri Kirby Erickson, author of Becoming the Blue Heron Whether “simply/lying side by side on towels/sharing the sea,” exploring the lonely landscape of grief and loss, or reveling in the healing power of “a scatter of shells at mid-tide” and the “tiny chirrup of a seabird,” we find ourselves, in the end, “salt-streaked,/holding tight to our buckets/of treasure,” which will forever include this tender, multilayered, and deeply moving collection. Reading Ann Campanella’s The Beach Poems is like pressing a conch shell to one’s ear and listening to the sound of waves. ![]()
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