Book review: A Frostbitten Memory of a Stillborn Spring by Lindy Kennedy.

Publisher's description

"A Frostbitten Memory of a Stillborn Spring" is about birth and death, love and loss, the eternal pairs that bound beginning and end. Lindy Kennedy's debut anthology weaves together poems that tackle the big and the small, attempting to capture a universal feeling of what it is to be human, to be bare, facing the abyss as you embark into the cold tundra of life without a tunic or torch. Let yourself be vulnerable and "A Frostbitten Memory of a Stillborn Spring" will tug at your heartstrings and tantalize your mind. Open this book only if you are ready to commence an emotional and intellectual journey of self-discovery. Awakening the dormant spring within one's soul is an irreversible process. Beware, you enter at your own peril.

My review (first pubished on Reader's favorite)

A Frostbitten Memory of a Stillborn Spring by Lindy Kennedy is a beautiful and poignant collection of poems. The author wills us to feel more connected with others and with ourselves and I believe she fully succeeds in this difficult and fascinating task! 

These are all engrossing and engaging, well-written but above all heart-rending pieces. Lost love and the feelings you feel are shared in an amazingly powerful yet simple way in “Where are you?”

To top it all my favorite French writer is quoted:

“like Proust, I’m long-lost in pursuit / of something which by definition, can never be”

in the best way possible (an analysis of the poem as well as In Search of Lost Time). It is difficult to choose among this collection of poems but I’d like to share my response to “Hell is a Cold Place” which also deals with love lost: it is its simplicity and shortness (1 line) which make it so tragic and endearing to the reader or listener. I also particularly enjoyed “Compulsion” which is also all about the beauty of words and their meaning.   

I appreciated each and every poem and found them enlightening and potent.