Royal Oak Native Publishes Chapbook of Poetry

PRESS RELEASE

Finishing Line Press
PO Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324

Finishing Line Press is proud to announce the publication of:
To My Mother: Winter Circus, a collection of poems,by Royal Oak native, Lynn Swanson

The poems concern the aging and passing away of a parent expressed in realization, sadness, joy and humor.

To My Mother: Winter Circus manages the miracle of distilling time to capture those moments that define it in all of its human complexity. Beautifully rendered and deeply affecting, I came away from reading these poems feeling as if I’d been guided into a place of emotional honesty and daring that I find not only rare, but courageous and clarifying.
–Jack Driscoll, author of The Goat Fish and The Lover’s Knot

“These are poems of brave truth, written with the intention of finding pattern and meaning in bare reality. So hard to write a poet’s narrative of pedestrian old age and dying, yet the poignant story of Lynn Swanson‘s fascination and delight in the past wonder of seeing her mother, who had been a circus acrobat and dancer, poised in her ballet shoes on the back of a pony, permeates her experience of familiar sadness in selling house and treasures. Authentic, intrepid, touching.”
–Diane Wakoski, author of the well-known Motorcycle Betrayal Poems and more recently the author of Diamond Dog and Bay of Angels

Lynn Swanson is a writer and dance educator who holds a BFA in dance from The University of Michigan, and an MA in English/creative writing from Michigan State University. She won literary awards in fiction and poetry at MSU and has written two middle reader novels, Summer Dance and the sequel Welcome Back to Lakewood. Her illustrated poem, Caraboose the Tooth Fairy Moose, has been endorsed by the Delta Dental Association. She has been published in both poetry and fiction in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies, and several poems have been commissioned by the Detroit Dance Collective.

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