Join us at our South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch for a conversation with Adrian Schnall, author of "Afterglow."
Register:
https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13835540
Schnall devoted four decades to caring for patients and teaching medical students but has found equal joy in returning to poetry and literature full-time. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Amethyst Review, JAMA, Muddy River Poetry Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine, Pathogens and Immunity, Poetica, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. His poems have been selected for public readings by Choral Arts Cleveland, Lit Cleveland, Lit Youngstown, the Island Writers’ Network at Hilton Head, and the Western Reserve Chorale. Afterglow is his debut collection.
"Afterglow" is a collection of poems of vignette and reminiscence that take the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions – from the sorrow of watching aging parents decline and die to the delight of a Facetime call with a grandchild; from wonder at the beauty of nature to dismay and frustration at seeing it despoiled; from the pleasure of witnessing a small act of kindness to disbelief at the inhumanities we see all around us; from a doctor’s self-recrimination when a patient has a bad outcome to the joy he feels in knowing he’s made a life better. Each of these poems sings with a particular cadence and resonates – be it with regret or resignation, forgiveness or hope.
“We must live a time in silence / before we can hear / cries in the trees,” writes Adrian Schnall in this collection of humane poems that probe and search for linkages between us and our world, us and our self. I am grateful for these poems.”
—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Deaf Republic, and a current Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets
📕 Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.
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