{"product_id":"outwalking-the-shadow-9781959346302","title":"Outwalking the Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet and playwright Debra Kaufman is the author of \u003ci\u003eGod Shattered, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDelicate Thefts, The Next Moment\u003c\/i\u003e (all from Jacar Press), \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Certain Light\u003c\/i\u003e (Emrys Press), as well as three chapbooks.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eA Midwest native, she lives in central North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehttp: \/\/www.Debrakaufman.info \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly Praise for \u003ci\u003eOutwalking the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cp\u003eOver the years, I have watched, with admiration, Debra Kaufman steadily and elegantly amasses a body of work that brilliantly illuminates the daily minute-by-minute hazards and epiphanies of abiding in this capricious earth. With both eyes open, a capacious heart, and a lyric, contemplative voice, she graciously, courageously ignites the moment, however flickering, however ephemeral-even harrowing-yet always worthy of her precise, shimmering language. Adrienne Rich wrote, \"[s]ensual vitality is essential to the struggle for life.\" Kaufman understands this aesthetic perfectly, as well as \"the struggle.\" \u003ci\u003eOutwalking the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e is powerfully and unabashedly sensual, Kaufman at her unflinching absolute best: \"one voice lifted \/ to the troubling, never-ending skies\"-a tapestry of praise and righteous caution. What an immaculate, necessary, and beautiful book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Joseph Bathanti, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eauthor of twelve poetry collections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutwalking the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e opens with a wren's warning song and ends with the poet apologizing to the wren: \"I am sorry, sorry, so so sorry, \/ for what you don't know is coming.\" Still, for all the dark at its heart, this collection is radiant with the lightness of a love for this world. Debra Kaufman's poetry is clear and emotionally compelling, a lyrical search for identity and truth through pain, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Judy Goldman, author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChild: A Memoir \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLosing My Sister \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Redhawk Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50489871302930,"sku":"9781959346302","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f4fe165b-e264-4920-a0a6-687adc8633f9.jpg?v=1730511070","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/outwalking-the-shadow-9781959346302","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}