Love’s Gravity($20.00Value)

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Love’s Gravity is a book of deep listening, of choosing to be present, finding what is sacred, even as — especially as — we grapple with mortality. Diana Cohn invites herself to “stop to embrace everything just a little bit longer.” The result is clear-eyed curiosity. These courageous poems have the power “to wake you, to shake you shake you open.” — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer , author, The Unfolding and host, The Poetic Path Diana Cohn’s poetry is a quiet holy place. Each poem is a spark — reminding us of the brevity and brilliance of our lives, and of the myriad languages of love that connect us. This is a collection to savor slowly, like the light within us, disappearing and returning, each time more luminous. — Holly Lynn Payne , author, Rose Girl: A Tale of Resilience and Rumi Diana Cohn’s poems carry the bright sadness and terrible beauty of being alive. With Zen-inflected clarity, she attends to both grief and wonder — hearing “the blues and the blessings,” and remembering that “‘the mountains belong to the people who love them.’” Her voice lingers like a struck basu (bell), inviting us to rest and revel in life’s contradictions. — Joël Barraquiel Tan , author, Type O Negative Diana Cohn’s poems are both direct and full of wonder, as they convey the trials of the female body, the wonders of the natural world, and a celebration of the profundity of love. Reading Love’s Gravity is like being invited on a journey with a gloriously gifted, supremely wise, and empathic guide who has experienced life’s shadows and auroras. I’ve returned to these poems over and over, and I hope you do too. — Vendela Vida , author, We Run the Tides These brave, moving, and eloquent poems express the joy and danger of our existence on earth, the power of intense companionship, the journey of healing, and the inseparable closeness of nature and the human spirit. — William Carpenter , poet and novelist, author, Silence