A Story Interrupted

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A STORY INTERRUPTED takes us--lucky us--on a journey to places as diverse as the Oregon coast, Iceland, Mexico City, and Athens. With striking imagery, with wisdom and insight, Connie Soper's work compels us--wherever we might be walking on this earth--to note the boon of paying rapt attention to what exists right under our eyes, to celebrate 'the up side / of looking down'. Embracing mountain, lake, forest, and sea, deeply attentive to the lives of family, friends, and strangers, Soper's poems urge us to 'wander with a map / creased to the contours of curiosity, ' to 'hike the precipice of awe'--Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita ... Connie Soper's first book of poetry invites readers to wander the trails of Oregon's lush and fertile forests, and to celebrate its beaches, coastal cliffs, and headlands. She explores her native terrain with a reverence for the wild and untamed, as well as smaller moments spent in solitude. A Story Interrupted opens its map of place, memory, and inheritances--a map both familiar and uncharted. These poems offer glimpses, as well, of more distant traveled lands, always rooted in a keenly observed sense of place and belonging. These poems recall tender moments and conjure memories that connect us with our past, even if that past is sometimes difficult to acknowledge. Here, open-endedness is not melancholy but joy, each poem a small celebration--From back cove