Recensione:
“The writing is highly sensual, painterly even, vividly portraying the natural world and its changing seasons.... [T]he depth of detail feels appropriate, mirroring the deliberate pace of Kate’s recovery and regeneration. Powning’s subject here is no less than the relationship of life and death, and she engages it with rigour and grace.”
—Quill & Quire
Advance praise for The Hatbox Letters:
“Beth Powning reminds us of the essential links and threads that bind family and loved ones, past generations to future. In gentle prose, she illuminates passages through grief, yet the novel is studded with vitality. A story of unexpected endings and new beginnings — of life surging forward.”
—Frances Itani
“Like Annie Dillard, Beth Powning is a keen observer of the natural world. In language both erotic and exact, she explores the conflicting emotions of love and loss in a novel redolent with memory and the truth of experience, hard won.”
—Joan Clark
“Beth Powning’s language is lush with stunning images that linger long after the reading experience — and with soothing insights, especially of the healing potency available in family histories and connections with friends. She takes us by the hand and leads us through the landmines of grief. We can trust her: she knows the way back to the safety of emerging hope and belief in renewal.”
—Marjorie Anderson, co-editor, Dropped Threads
Praise for Shadow Child and Seeds of Another Summer
“Tenacious, unsparing, in anguish sometimes, but mostly with moving lyricism, Beth Powning pursues and completes what she calls her ‘apprenticeship in love and loss’, a long and not easy journey that we all, women and men, in our way, try to carry through.”
—Ernest Hillen, author of Small Mercies: A Boy After War
“Beth Powning’s. . .pure, powerful prose lure us into [its] embrace, laying bare our desire for a union with the natural world. This is the work of a gifted artist.”
—Courtney Milne, author of Prairie Skies
L'autore:
Beth Powning is the author of Seeds of Another Summer: Finding the Spirit of Home in Nature, also published as Home: Chronicle of a North Country Life in the U.S., which was heralded by the Chicago Tribune as “a wandering serenity you can hold in your hand. . .in a world increasingly cynical and numb, Powning puts a light in the window for us all”; and Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss, which was praised by Library Journal as “superbly written. . .[Powning] penetrates the complexities of relationships in family and community.” She lives in Sussex, New Brunswick, with her husband, the artist Peter Powning.
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