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Death and other Possibilities: The poetry of Allison Grayhurst
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(front cover sculpture and photo of sculpture © by Allison Grayhurst)
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Book 3
Death and other Possibilities
(2000, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CHB8M0K; ISBN-10: 1478208163; ISBN-13: 978-1478208167)
Links to read each poem within the book:
Sheaves of Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/05/18/sheaves-of-time-2/
Between Two Places
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/19/between-two-places-2/
Change
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/19/change/
In Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/27/in-time-2/
Within This Hour
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/28/within-this-hour-2/
Falling
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/19/falling/
Replenished
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/10/replenished/
The Voice That Calls To Me
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/01/the-voice-that-calls-to-me/
You Were There
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/12/03/you-were-there-2/
In The Tomb
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/19/in-the-tomb/
Without Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/20/without-light/
To Lie With Luck Again
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/21/to-lie-with-luck-again/
Dark Wave
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/22/dark-wave/
The Ghosts Around My Bed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/23/the-ghosts-around-my-bed/
Home
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/10/home-2/
My Love is Waiting
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/04/my-love-is-waiting/
Without Covers
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/10/30/without-covers/
The Gift
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/21/the-gift-2/
Through the thick middle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/24/through-the-thick-middle/
A Day For My Own
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/05/24/a-day-for-my-own-2/
Whole
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/11/whole/
Morning
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/25/morning/
Things I Must Learn
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/18/things-i-must-learn-3/
New Commitment
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/20/new-commitment-2/
Spiral
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/17/spiral/
Dad (an eulogy)
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/04/22/dad-an-eulogy/
In the Gully of Things
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/31/in-the-gully-of-things/
Open
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/18/open/
Friendship
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/14/friendship/
Like a harmonica
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/06/like-a-harmonica/
Pregnant After a Death
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/07/pregnant-after-a-death/
Imagination
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/27/imagination/
Bright
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/15/bright/
Transfigured
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/07/22/transfigured/
In My Bones
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/10/in-my-bones/
My Place
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/02/my-place/
I Found You Singing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/17/i-found-you-singing/
Recovered
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/05/09/recovered-2/
Silence
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/14/silence/
Like A Wave
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/11/like-a-wave/
In This Garden
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/10/12/in-this-garden/
before
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/04/before/
The Gentle Seed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/01/the-gentle-seed/
As One
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/01/as-one/
Of Fears and Thankfulness
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/05/of-fears-and-thankfulness/
On the bed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/26/on-the-bed/
In The Fire
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/06/in-the-fire/
Eight Months
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/07/eight-months/
BloodsuckerDeath
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/20/bloodsuckerdeath/
Pregnant
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/08/pregnant/
Almost to the Other Side
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/21/almost-to-the-other-side/
When the last tie is broken
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/23/when-the-last-tie-is-broken/
I still think of you
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/19/i-still-think-of-you/
At Sunrise
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/07/at-sunrise/
If We Are So Lucky
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/09/if-we-are-so-lucky/
Seeing Shadows
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/27/seeing-shadows/
Lifted
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/28/lifted/
Anniversary
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/13/anniversary/
A Month Before Birth
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/10/a-month-before-birth/
Autumn
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/11/autumn/
We Walk Again
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/12/we-walk-again/
In Preparation
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/16/in-preparation/
Without Hunger
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/22/without-hunger/
my child
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/17/my-child/
Not a Ghost
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/06/not-a-ghost/
Break the Chain
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/21/break-the-chain/
When Sleep Will Not Come
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/29/when-sleep-will-not-come/
Spring
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/08/spring/
Our Little Pushkin
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/27/our-little-pushkin/
Breaking Through
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/09/breaking-through/
Stale Goodbye
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/01/stale-goodbye/
In the centre
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/23/in-the-centre/
Sweet
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/18/sweet/
A Moment of Clarity
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/02/a-moment-of-clarity/
Daughter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/29/daughter/
The Road Chosen
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/03/the-road-has-chosen/
Of Manna and God
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/30/25434/
It is
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/24/it-is/
What Is Good
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/25/what-is-good/
A Matter of Risk
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/06/01/a-matter-of-risk/
A Day
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/31/a-day/
An Infant
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/30/an-infant/
Back of the book quotes
“When I read Allison Grayhurst’s poetry, I am compelled by the intensity and strength of her spirituality. Her personal experience of God drives her poetry. With honesty and vulnerability, she fleshes out the profound mystery of knowing at once both the beauty and terror of God’s love, both freedom and obedience, deep joy and sorrow, both being deeply rooted in but also apart from the world, and lastly, both life and death. Her poems undulate through these paradoxes with much feeling and often leave me breathless, shaken. Allison Grayhurst’s poems are both beautiful and difficult to behold,” Anna Mark, poet and teacher.
“A river is in Allison Grayhurst’s poems. Sometimes it rages over boulders hidden beneath rapids. Sometimes it is as calm and placid as a summer day reflecting skies so blue they are as unusual as a Stellar Jay’s wings. Sometimes it is as unpredictable as the rhythm of clouds gathering before a storm. Made up of words, emotions, thoughts, thoughts crystallized into ideas, this river, like most rivers, is unforgettable. One poem cascades after another into a flood of poetry. As in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Allison Grayhurst’s work can be dense with meanings hidden beneath the flowing surface of words. The emotions in her poems sear with the power of Sylvia Plath. One layer reflects light over another layer of thought and emotion that leads to yet another layer. This is as serious a poet as is writing poetry today. For those adventurous enough to venture into a river wild, deep, calm, beautiful, shadowed, light, filled with moods and emotions of both an inner and the earth’s landscape, then this is a journey worth taking. It leads to experiences that have the texture and substance of life,” Thomas Davis, poet, educator, scholar, playwright, and novelist.