In this accomplished book, Mary Kay Rummel spins words into
mysticism and magic. "Not to be ordinary," she was drawn into the
convent where she was forbidden to read fiction because the
Superior didn't like it. In "Patterns of Obedience," she writes
that she was able to leave when "words whispered in that
wind/telling her to go forth and read, to never ask again." Set
free, she read and wrote and traveled, visiting early Irish history
and myth. Throughout her book, bells chime in celebration as her
words become exquisite lyric poems. -Jill Breckenridge, Poet, The
Gravity of Flesh If you delight in plunging into an environment's
sensual and emotional landscape; if you thrill to poetry that
seduces and resonates; if you crave fresh language, intelligence,
revelation and uncompromising risk, then What's Left Is The
Singing-this miraculous confessional, this collection with its
complexity of conflict and resolution, this sound-feast-will
satisfy to the bone. Rummel's work allows us to feel how. . . light
slips/through fingers into every fold of sky. -Ellen Reich, Poet,
The Gynecic Papers When one reads the poems of Mary Kay Rummel, one
expects a certain precision of language, a vigilant detail, a
concentrated lyric whisper that elevates the ordinary life's
ordinary aspirations. On these counts, What's Left Is The Singing
does not disappoint. But these poems are also transformative. Here
we find beauty that resists adoration, caution that armors raised
fists, and belief that survives religion. Here we find metaphors
for life's passion in the scapes of sand and tides and endless
stars that shine through us. And if we don't find distraction from
our ignorance, we do find elegant language touched with music and
some blessings and a few reasons to go on. This is exactly what we
ask from our poetry. -David Oliveira, Poet, A Little Travel Story;
Editor, Mille Grazie Press
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