Set in the Rocky Mountains, After Rain is a portrait of a woman repairing her marriage in pandemic times, entering the wide berth of motherhood and tending the tender shoots of a new family.
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Set in the Rocky Mountains, After Rain is a portrait of a woman repairing her marriage in pandemic times, entering the wide berth of motherhood and tending the tender shoots of a new family.
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After Rain is a meditation on love, marriage, isolation, pregnancy, and motherhood. Full of revelation, reverence and revelry, these poems carry us through portals to reveal the stark beauty of life. With a keen sense of paradox and wonder, Carolyn Hunter's poetry explores the verdant understory of our lives.
Set in the Rocky Mountains, After Rain is a portrait of a woman repairing her marriage in pandemic times, entering the wide berth of motherhood and tending the tender shoots of a new family. Hunter lets us peer over the sill of her marriage to witness its disappointments and enchantments. There are stories of longing for her ancestral roots in Ireland and her aching desire for sovereignty. She opens our eyes to the beauty of wild places and the wildernesses within.
With rich illustrations by artist Jessica Bernstein, After Rain is a moonbeam to light up the dark thresholds we all cross in the ongoing journey of becoming ourselves.
Critic Reviews
"Breathless and breath-filled at once, this book somehow contains it all. Alongside Hunter, I met my ex-lovers. I strung up my dreams with the stars. I welcomed new life. I wept. Afterward, I felt reborn." T.S. Wolff, All Things Sane
"She let others believe what they want about her," writes Hunter. With this fearless collection, Hunter joins the likes of Joni Mitchell and Sara Bareilles, women who say what we need to hear." - Abby Forrest Whyte
"Blueberries and creme brûlée. Canyons and ponderosa pines. A mother's loneliness and the scent of burning sage. To read Hunter's transcendent collection is to taste life twice. After Rain is a must-read."- MotherElm
About the Author
Carolyn Hunter is a singer, songwriter, and poet. She has published two collections of poetry, Photographic Memory Camera and After Rain. After a decade of touring in the indie, folk and pop music scenes, Hunter now spends her days writing and rediscovering the world through motherhood. She lives in Colorado with her husband, son, and dog.
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