6 Ergebnisse.

This is one of Marion Cohen's few un-themed poetry collections. Earlier collections have been on specific topics rarely explored to that extent. It seems every time something happens to Marion Cohen, she writes several books about it. Her pregnancy loss books are five in number and her books on the experience of spousal chronic illness number six. And all of what she writes must be said and read. Closer to Dying is, relatively, un-themed. Its ...

The 33rd collection of poetry for Marion Deutsche Cohen, this volume shows off one of her son's art pieces as a cover, as did her last with New Plains Press, The Project of Being Alive. The ethos of this title runs along the same vein as Project, though touching on some new topics so near and dear. Marion has a way of revealing subtle truths in huge ways by plying diction so strongly into our mind's eye ... as if she's anticipated exactly what...

There is a great precision and correctness in Marion Cohen's poetry. It veers about and somehow turns out unimpeachable and loveable. Here you'll find the reason for mortality and for carrying on with the Project. We live in a state of shared alone-ness, and this is a book to keep at our bedside and, while reading by oneself, not be alone at all.

The author has never been raped or assaulted (in any obvious way), but she still says #me-too because she has experienced, in the words of Larry Robin of Moonstone Arts in Philadelphia, "unwanted sexual activity". We live in a rape culture, assault culture, harassment culture, oversexed culture, which ties in with many other not-great things about our culture, such as guilt-tripping, ego-crap, and probably capitalism, With images from childhoo...

Marion Cohen is equally mathematician and poet. Using mathematical metaphor, she touches deeply into issues of life and heart. In each poem she crosses the equal sign on many levels, beginning with visible points, lines, numbers. crossing over to life's invisible-yet-tangible delights and frustrations. and crossing back again with insights gleaned from these reflections. (Barbara E. Reynolds, SDS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Cardinal Str...

What is it like to be the well spouse of a man with multiple sclerosis, to care for someone who will not get better and whose chronic illness will progress into dementia? ... Much of this work feels like it was written in the hard blue light of 3 AM, letting us read the emotional weather of the journey, the way that only poetry can do. Barbara Crooker, author of Radiance, winner of the Word Press First Book Award, and Line Dance Marion Cohen h...