Fragments of the Human Heart - Free Kindle Book

Fragments of the Human Heart 
by Susan Blanshard

Blanshard does for poetry what Paul Klee did for painting, showing how to get the surest sense of artistic form into the smallest fragments of poetic feeling. Dreamlike and intensely atmospheric, at times autobiographical, these poems reflect Blanshard's powerful imagery of visceral pain and tenderness. In them we find,loss, loneliness, love, the passage of time.

Fragments of the Human Heart constructs through skillfully realized poetry, and powerful imagery, one woman's passion, and emotions. Blanshard has written a beautiful evocation of memory which pulsates with fullness and loss. There are few writers who can evoke such a lasting memory of a single image with so few words.
You find yourself close to someone whose voice resides inside her ineffable heart and comes out in original, sensitive, beautiful tones and words. A beautiful book; a mosaic of poems put together with feeling and intelligence. Luminous, reflective, confessional at times, these poems look at the desire and fulfillment, light and dark, stone and flesh, water and land, the slopes of these bodies with flashes of autobiographical disclosure- to distill a precious meaning from life's experience.

As the author's painting on the front cover of Fragments of the Human Heart reveals, a woman standing on the full moon, whose silver pigment is oxidized over time. Love and sex, death and loss, these poems are jewels, a window into universal circumstances, a crystal whose facets reflect an entire life, with exile glinting at the edge.