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    By Ute Carson

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    Listen is a collection of poems spanning the life cycle: birth, parenting (and grandparenting), aging, and dying. Images of nature and our connections to it abound throughout because nature is our

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYellow Arrow Publishing
    Release dateOct 12, 2021
    ISBN9781087990194
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    Ute Carson

    A writer from youth, German-born Ute Carson has published two novels, a novella, a volume of stories, four collections of poetry, and numerous essays in the U.S. and abroad. Her poetry was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She resides in Austin, Texas with her husband. They have three daughters, six grandchildren, a horse, and a clowder of cats. Please visit her website www.utecarson.com.

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      Acknowledgments

      Cradling the Heart

      Green Silk Journal, Fall 2018

      The Quotidian and Regret is Only for the Living

      The Pangolin Review, November 2018

      Ageless

      Scarlet Leaf Review, No. 3, 2019

      Relinquishment

      first appeared Thehealingpoems.com, February 2019

      republished Universal Oneness, Author Press (India), Summer 2019

      Friendship

      Green Silk Journal, Spring 2019

      The New Normal

      Dime Show Review, Spring 2019

      Waiting for . . .

      Wordsmith HQ (United Kingdom), Spring 2019

      Breaking Away, Crying is a Gift, and Ode to Water

      Poethead, Word Press, April 2019

      Old Lovers

      Levitate (Chicago), April 2019

      Unsung Heroes

      Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, May 2019

      The Wall, Monument to Disenchantment

      published as Over the Green Divide

      Indolent Books, May 2019

      Echoes, Living on Borrowed Time, and The Past Lives On . . .

      New Reader Magazine NRM, Issue 6, Summer 2019

      Little Things, Relic, and Stars in the Night,

      Literary Yard, June 2019

      Wonder

      Down in the Dirt, online June 2019, print March 2020

      The House of Childhood

      Plainsong, Hastings College Press, July 2019

      Sleeping with a Cat,

      Mustlovecats, July 2019

      Hub of a Wheel

      34thParallel Magazine, Issue 70, November 2019

      Not Night Yet

      Poetry Pacific, November 2019

      Then and Now

      The Fox Poetry Box, December 2019/January 2020

      reprinted as runner-up in the TCK 2021 Poetry Award

      Talking and Listening

      Green Silk Journal, Spring 2020

      Secret Anniversaries

      Indolent Books, March 2020

      Death is Not One But Many and Magical Greenery

      New Reader Magazine NRM, Issue10, Summer 2020

      Risks Around Each Corner

      Yellow Arrow Journal (Re)Formation, Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 2020

      She Still Lives Here

      Quail Bell Magazine, January 2021

      Flames Rising

      The Fox Poetry Box, February 2021

      "Seasons of

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