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Julene Tripp Weaver was already processing her survival scars from the AIDS epidemic when COVID 19 hit Little did she anticipate that her experiences dealing with the AIDS epidemic both as healer and patient would prepare her to weather the pandemic as it spread The poems in Slow Now with Clear Skies act as memoir reflecting back on blue blood ancestors in Appalachia all the way to socially distanced walks during the pandemic The juxtaposition of social medical emergencies makes these poems a must read for those of us who lived through both eras How rewarding to read how good writers synthesize and make the most of challenging times In the wise woman tradition these poems document personal and family loss in a way that honors resiliency and restores hope 88 
A poet s second or subsequent collection often doesn t live up to the promise inherent in the first I loved Julene s earlier poetry and it is wonderful to say that this collection exceeds her earlier work There s a maturity a wisdom in these poems Her new collection showcases Julene Tripp Weaver at her height She draws on her wise woman training throughout these narrative poems about family about death and loss about the natural world in other words poems about us Weaver reminds her readers of the early days of HIV when the viral pathology was unknown and we watched helpless while so many died She compares those early days to the fear and isolation during the early days of Covid And Weaver also reminds us there is hope there is survivorship that Today when I spilled into despair is followed by a time when we meld into a new tomorrow While Weaver is attentive to minute specific details her vision in this collection is the big picture 88 This lovely collection of poems feels an interweaving of four threads the covid 19 pandemic the poet s journey with her own long term illness her strained childhood and family relations and her wonderful relationship with her partner Layers of memory intermingle with present crises building storms of meaning and emotion that ebb and flow through every page Despite the heavy seas held within the book feels like it leaves the reader on a hopeful note like the feeling of the end of the pandemic poking our heads out again to proceed slowly under temporarily clear skies. Slow now with clear skiesp song A wonderful volume highly recommended 88 There are moments in this volume dominated by sickness of time and virus when Weaver transcends the easy way of death to land in profound instants of insight Those moments grace this collection not with the expected lamentations of loss and death but a greater depth perhaps even grace beyond death Here the verse is clean sharp and pure as the poet uses ordinary language to say extraordinary things There is much Imagism in Weaver s poetry Imagism saying what you mean in the fewest and clearest words While Weaver never fully abandons the purely experiential and this volume is built on the personal she leads us past the lyric of lamentations and into the epic of our own battles as humans to survive. Ebook slow now with clear skies book To me as a novelist and poet an important aspect of Weaver s writing is her deep and personal knowledge of death disease the dead and the dying knowledge that she always encases in language that is deep and clear and pure. Slow now with clear skiesurge Rusty Chain Heritage I loved the quiet in this room the history I never understood The organ no one playedout of tune a museum for far away relativesin England or Holland mother s sideof the family who tried to stay wealthybut exposed to the elements oxidizedin a slow decline till it wore thin this familialchain clear to inevitable death. Book Slow Now with Clear skies initiative Poets of the natural world often revel in and sometimes canonize nature with its own cycles of death and resurrection In Weaver s writing we see a shift to separation of the modern mind from nature and with that separation there comes a deep sadness It is as if Weaver sees that by rejecting our place in the natural continuum we create our own malaise Implicit in these few lines from Letting Go is the sense that as we isolate ourselves from nature we sacrifice the essence of being alive Letting Go How unreal we are against natural forces fire rain stars explode we don t feel their sparks. Slow now with clear skies pdf free The homeless with their pungent bodies dig in the trash cars with shaded windows drive past The end is coming fast No matter how young now is the time to sort out what is necessary. Book slow now with clear skies pdf Compare Letting Go to Northwest Mineral Springs to see the range of insight Weaver brings to the poetry of Nature Northwest Mineral SpringsSeeking renowned remote hotsprings wild space to soak naked we found one near the ColumbiaRiver back woods known to localswarned of the gnarly path remindedto pay the parking fee Heated poolsof mineral water we sat with a travelerwho lived at The Farm in Tennessee. Memoir Slow Now with Clear skies learn A rare summer day of freedom glints of silver in the waterfallsacross from our sequestered rock hovel salmon jumping upstream interloper from the east coast could Ibelieve my eyes We moved closer to seetheir silver shimmers Oblivious to usthey swam instinctual and urgentin cold icy water to spawn and die. Slow Now with Clear Skies pdf We dipped our toes into their runningriver satisfied we returned to our soak a mere mile from Carson Hot Springswhere they piped this very waterinto white porcelain tubs and chargeda fee for what we indulged for free. Book Slow Now with Clear skies learn In The Moment of Diagnosis the poet sees herself as the sick one sick with the diseases of the modern world yet she is also strong lucky to be alive Here she opens the door on the universal I feel when reading her poems The feeling is in fact an imperative to survive we must be strong A platitude An easy way out Try it Be strong in the face of destruction imagine being a child in Gaza. Slow now with clear skies poetry in english The Moment of Diagnosis The diagnosis hit like a tailgate strike a scathing jolt a wake up crash whiplash but there is a wayto forgive to stand with trees to grow a gradualacceptance a sliver matures in stillness time passesmoves on to what transpires next on a tree leaves come and gothis process cycling to a calling that opened to a careerthat came and went I survive like the trees in their daily standing. Slow now with clear skiesp song It makes sense this emotional stew that stormed my life a personal study how to midwife the specter of death Grateful to the trees that absorb pain they would accept evenmy blood if I had to bleed I stand today one of the lucky ones. Slow Now with Clear Skies ebook In the twenty first century we have seen the Great Flu pandemic we have witnessed the AIDS pandemic that ripped life from men and women alike and we have experienced the Covid 19 pandemic that like the Great Flu killed millions of us without respect for status wealth nationality or skin color We stand at a moment of time close to the abyss Weaver has captured that moment with an epic depth in Pupal Soup a pun and a lament addressed to Theodore Roethke Pupal SoupOh Theodore had you been herewith us these past years to question the good COVID has donefor earth the many lives lost this purgenature s retribution to equilibriumto regain a stake We are light beingswho must recognize other ways. Epub slow now with clear skies and rain There is a fine point of precisionto expect death eyes opened to what is mostvaluable the heart knows the gut mindknows survival of the fittest not a gamebut a life changer We have buzzedaround like lost bees tired seekinga new hive and our Queen bee. Book slow now with clear skies pdf There are many complex and deep poems about death from the medieval La Danse des Morts B le to William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis to Emily Dickenson Because I could not Stop for Death From Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night to Conrad Aiken Tetelestai Where in this decade of the twenty first century do we find that depth of understanding of death and the chaos it brought to us Perhaps in this century it is not death that beleaguers us but a failure to understand that as small specks of flesh and blood in a cosmos that is indifferent to our existence a cosmos that is indifferent to our suffering as a species we must for our survival depend on one another Rather than become a killing disease whose target is ourselves we must cherish the cosmic chance of our existence and revel in the knowledge that perhaps earth is the only the unique spot in the cosmos where love exists. Slow now with clear skiesurge In Social Distance Weaver personalizes her experience to give the reader a deep feeling for what love can mean in the face of adversity Social DistanceWe need each other every singleday month year generation. Book Slow Now with Clear skies Community we lift each other upgather round a fire a hearth singorganize a union speak unfetteredour worry and love We travel across boundaries move agelesslike cowboy poets spreading news region to region The call for knowledgelifted from truth and source a wide web little insistence on independence we understand how frail each human The ideaof a superhero manifests in good deedsLassie barked Help he needs helpand there was a rescue. Book Slow Now with Clear skies How can I learn to lean on otherswhen touch is extracted from my bones When I no longer care who sees me at myworst What deep seated fear rolls mefrom a plethora of necessary help from another My partner rubs my back with healing herbshe the only one I expect support from the onewho is there trusted We have a couple bubblefaith and love but how many have even oneperson in these hazardous times My friend with asthma suffocated by smokeleft took a plane to Chicago then a planeto Portland Maine with no plan Withlittle money no credit card no one to meet herat either airport She used the last of her cashfor this grand escape so she could breathefires encroaching her home. EPub Slow Now with Clear skiesta This is a time of risk and daring for thoseOn the edge of survival Our world on the slopeof decline we roll into mire claw through mudto the top of a hill already crowded thosewho slip and die the earth accepts as filler Food Chain counterpoints the personal world of Social Distance with a perhaps unique view of the world that lives often beyond our provincial awareness of life on this planet Several years ago I came across an article that spoke of our temporal provincialism Human beings tend to amplify our egosphere and to restrict our sense of time as we imagine that ours is the only important and unique time in history To put our time in perspective Weaver at the end of Food Chain gives us three especially captivating lines to close the poem We must fight back preserve the wildallow insects to live their natural livesharmonious nature to swallow us into her fold. Slow now with clear skiesq skysquid Food ChainWhen it is time to die as if we can count the time to the inevitablebarred from the knowledge of the stars the moon and planets shift into alignmentwith secret knowledge. EPub Slow Now with Clear skies To see the depth of Weaver s verse we have to look beneath the experiential I where we find not the individual journey but the epic collective journey as well It is easy to see the I as representative of the individual but in Weaver s cosmos the I always implies the collective it is our journey mirrored through her own that she tells us her disease is not a private one but one that is linked to each and every one of us and the actual and world wide death of millions. Slow now with clear skies book pdf I ve Lived Through One War I ve had my share of the I m dying lamentI ll not go there with this new pandemicI lived through one war AIDS Workedand lived through death up close people take risks bug chasers fuckedto get HIV that old story Citizensthrow Corona parties to get sick buildimmunity they make decisions irrespectiveof rules or science meet with a friendwalk in a park conscientious I willshelter in place within reason unafraid. Slow Now with Clear Skies memoir 44 Two Centuries Three Pandemics A World worn out mined out blasted out perhaps even of its own future and certainly our place in it and one might think the poet s skepticism would lead to despair But Weaver doesn t take us there Instead despite all the adversity She and We experience she doesn t dwell on the negative No we find that instead of pessimism she sees perhaps a place for hope and dreams as she discloses in Learn to Love Learn to LoveA new world is on its wayit started at Woodstock with Vietnamprotests long hair rebels took offinto the blue sky on motorcyclesforever nomads now how manylive in RVs on the movelike Romani travelers changedby necessity Far from the standardAmerican capitalist lifestyleway beyond the reach of the buzz. Slow now with clear skiesp song Weaver s experiential I becomes intense when she writes about the extreme personal and little in this world is personal than the death of the Mother I wrote this about my Mother in a Quadrina in Memory of Verda Pauline Myers Remick When a mother dies than a body dies than a mind dies when a mother diesa world ends but as the mother dies the world does not end nothing changes Time does not stop the earth does not stillits spin the sun does not stay its journey When a mother dies nothing changes the world ends time stops dead In After Mother s Death Weaver brings us closer to the universal that lives in each of us through the Mother After Mother s DeathMy mother never enters at the righttime even in my dreams. Slow now with clear skiesq skysquid She was asleep on my arrivaland had nothing to say for yearsI had to love her there are rulesthat sit in the gut how we loveregurgitate turn sourbile pushes against the flapkeeping it in place that lovea dandy mess of our insides we can t escape even when we vegrown old you see when she diedthere was a longcomplicated grief and panic risingthere was no control in this bodythat pushed hard against her a lifetime. Book slow now with clear skies pdf The lyre that Sumerian invention gives us the lyric poem Poetry meant to be sung Lyric poetry ranges from love ballads to sonnets to odes The epic poem long and complicated in antiquity was sometimes sung often times chanted So few of us today can neither sing nor chant the epic It seems that the lyric has won the poetry sweepstakes but it is curious that in the voice of this poet Julene Tripp Weaver the lyric fades the epic survives Earlier in this review I wrote that I see Weaver s poetry recounting the battles she has fought and won as a survivor of HIV and in her recounting of those battles I hear the echo of epic struggles of other times of other wars of a different but nonetheless brutal and deadly kind now written in the contemporary mode This epic is not sung but it is chanted as the poet stands before us the listeners and gives us hope What Gives HopeThe miracle might be we emerge from thisa better world with a clearer vision higherpriorities a closer connection to each other that we might learn to live together in peacea new emphasis on healing the painour ancestors perpetuated with slavery. Memoir Slow Now with Clear skies learn We ve been isolated in this pandemic thrownonline to meet Contact our most importantsocial soothing cyber space not the body to body we yearn nuance obscured with distance Awash in protest against condoned police violencestill some are hopeful It is clear now essentialworkers are not expendable We returnour blood to the earth by rule of militaristic volitionlet us be drained like slaughtered deer Ordie in hospitals from COVID 19 intubated. Slow now with clear skiess and clouds In the streets we have always died Our bloodour breath obstructed with no mercy a clampon the poor with no clout unlike those whoprosper from crisis We the little ones with jobs lostincome gone family dead from systemic violencethese pressured times we ve always lived through. Slow Now with Clear Skies memoir 44 Following in his legacy yet to lead on the front lineof change that is coming And oh to havetheir fresh votes their wisdom their vision I recommend this volume for those who have survived the attacks and the battles to keep as proof that we as humans are greater than our fears 88 Wise women witches and medical herbs aside I related to these poems as I have few others First of all I share Weaver s language by which I mean that by virtue of our similar ages and upbringing her idiolect is close to my own But than that I share the world of her concerns As do many of us There is illness and death in this collections from the inevitabilities of old age to the unprecedented plagues of HIV and COVID Reading SLOW NOW is like reading an old newspaper you are reminded the news when in your present moment it is no longer news but history 88 This is my book and yes I love it 88
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