"Debra Warren has appropriately titled her book of poetry Pausing to Catch My Breath. The pages depict this mother and grandmother as someone who I would personally love to sit across from at a kitchen table with a huge pot of tea and talk for hours. Her style implements simple vocabulary with an honest appeal, yet her work is astoundingly moving. This is the kind of poetry that I like to read at a slow pace in order to allow the statements to really sink in. I think is a good example of what I mean. Today challenges readers to see beyond the mundane, by considering what others are experiencing that very moment. Its Never Too Late was a moving piece about many kinds of incarceration. I related with Trapped, especially where she wrote, "I am trapped inside a body that betrays". Pausing to Catch My Breath is a particularly beautifully written piece. I hope to retain in memory my favorite line of this poem, "Hearing the music, I dance to my yesterdays". Debra also displays an appealing sense of humor in her work. I loved the imagery of viewing cruel and stupid people as "human speed bumps" along the road of life. Pausing to Catch My Breath most certainly displays Debras ability to use uncomplicated prose to create deep emotion, intellectual thought and crisp images." ISBN#:14137767478
Author: Debra Warren
Publisher: Publish America, Inc. |
