Forged by Joy

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Laura Mazza-Dixon

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491_9781943826193

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Recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, “Laura Mazza-Dixon’s Forged by Joy is a test of light against time, from innocence to loss, a spiritual autobiography seen first through a girl’s eyes that behold wonder in everything, including stones – ‘sea-polished ovals, green trapezoids laced with gold’ – and forged through a life of art and love and loss, arriving at the question, ‘Can joy weigh more than grief?’ These are graceful, softly cadenced poems of belief carried against the final darkness we all face.” Doug Anderson, poet and author of Blues for Unemployed Secret PoliceOf the book, Forged by Joy poet Tryfon Tolides, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, and author of An Almost Pure Empty Walking, writes “Through elegies, litanies, gardening poems, and poems about other artists and musicians, Laura Mazza-Dixon weaves a community extending far Her yarns are her memories, her knowledge, her living and her dead. She draws her own design of what a family tree might look like. In addition to relatives, her tree contains friends and people she’s never met, such as the composers Arvo Pärt (who 'sought solace / in silence'), and J.S. Bach, various writers and artists, and her readers. Art and joy balance what is painful and dark. All of it – beauty, joy, grief, death – is 'encompassed by grandeur.'""She learns of her life and records the lessons. Her community extends to us, who share the truth of experience described. She tells us of her grandmother and her 'puzzlement and grief over the distance/ betwen herself and her only sister.' We know these pains. Referencing music, she says, 'truth comes to us all/ in the same way/ riding on the interval of a minor second.'""There are beautiful, simple, resonant detail

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