Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster

Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster explores the arc of a life shaped by loss and renewed by love. The poems intertwine to explore grief from the loss of loved ones (a lover, a daughter and close friends), early memories of growing up in an immigrant foster home, later memories of working in a mental hospital, the poet's own recovery from addiction, the emotional and spiritual impact of a near death and life-changing accident with its lasting, crippling effects, and an acceptance of a life nearing its own chronological end. Although there is a darkness in these poems, they belie the empathy and subtle humor in the poems and the joy of finding love in later life after so much loss.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bainbridge Island Press
Published: 03/31/2026
ISBN: 9781961451155
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d