{"product_id":"a-slow-journey-to-totality-paperback-1","title":"A Slow Journey to Totality - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane Vogel Ferri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Diane Vogel Ferri's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Slow Journey to Totality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, she begins with the clear affirmation that \"knowing is better than not knowing.\" At times soul-searching and grief-stricken, at times breathtakingly radiant and transcendent, this collection explores themes of family and faith, birth and death, gender and the art of aging. In her poem \"The Leaving,\" Ferri's imagined moment of earthly departure is triumphant: \"(If you are in church do not pray for me, \/ just sing and I will hear you.)\" and, \"The earth is a molecule now, \/ I'm holding gold dust in my hands, \/ I'll leave a portal open for you.\" By her journey's end, she has found her divine truth: \"I sit squarely in the mercy seat, \/ having walked there on my knees.\" Ferri has found her totality, and she is \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eknowing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eDianne Borsenik\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight of Honey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaga for What Comes Next\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Editor\/Publisher at NightBallet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiane Vogel Ferri's tender and emotive new poetry sequence, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Slow Journey to Totality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, leaves a bold and generous \"portal open for\" the reader to join her in exploring a lifetime encompassing innocence, longing, loss and personal evolution-through hard and soft, open and heavy and sometimes \"hollow arms\"; through faith, hope, parenthood, and myriad layers of relationship; as well as through \"decades of music\" and \"brilliant mystery\"-to find meaning, beauty, and well-earned light in the fullness of time. Ferri deserves gratitude for allowing us to accompany her on this journey, and for providing navigational landmarks to guide us on our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Burroughs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate, 2022-23\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Slow Journey to Totality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Diane Vogel Ferri guides us into a quietude that wakes us to the wonders of this world.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBut her tour is no easy travel through feminist struggles, wars, and the deaths of parents and friends.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAccompany Ferri \"as a charm of finches arrive \/ in this lotus land.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWe will have all gone on this journey where we can go no further but resurrection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eRay McNiece\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Heights' Poet Laureate and Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52730930004275,"sku":"9781639806577","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/sCSsA7omYB9781639806577_a0b0cf4a-780a-4d3b-8fb2-ebc05d5d41ba.webp?v=1763844994","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-slow-journey-to-totality-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}