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Salt Water Paperback – May 7, 2019

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Healing, it seems, does not happen in a straight line, and the “goal” is not a fixed thing. Rather, it is always evolving as one grows and changes. These poems are an attempt to investigate this fact through the lens of personal experience with illness, different losses, and how the self can become splintered because of necessary adaptations.

—from author statement by Laura J. Braverman

"Salt Water is a vital current, murky at times, often clear, which reveals the depths of earth and irrigates the human heart. It is a current, like blood, which has circulated through California, Austria, London, Beirut, and elsewhere—so the journey of this wonderful collection is constructed—and it is fitting that it wends its way to Paris, where I am, that it soothes and eases my wounds, because Salt Water is a work of loss and restoration . . . a potent work on the melancholy of the world, and of countries traversed that are as much geographical as interior: childhood, fear, solitude, motherhood.

At its core, Salt Water is a river of love. At once turbulent and still. Indispensable for those who seek to navigate life."

–from foreword by Grégoire Delacourt

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laura J. Braverman is a writer and artist. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Levure Litteraire, Live Encounters, and Sky Island Journal, and is forthcoming in the anthology Awake in the World, Volume II by Riverfeet Press. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and studied poetry and essay at Stanford University, Bennington College, and the New School. She lives in Lebanon with her family.

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    125 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    May 7, 2019
  4. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.32 x 8.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1732269084
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1732269088
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"Laura Braverman excels at creating, sustaining, and blending atmospheres of place. Hers is a private, reflective sensibility, preoccupied in part with loss and memory, but also able to celebrate family and the deep continuities that bind us all."

-Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject:

Art and Attention in the Internet Age

"Braverman's limpid, conversational poems belie their formal variation and control. This is a moving memoir that ranges from California's Santa Rosa mountains to Salzburg, London, and Beirut, and beautifully displays Braverman's gift for emotional lyricism."

-Natasha Lehrer, translator of Suite for Barbara Loden-

"Where is "our place" in this world? Is it where we were born, given the language to interpret it for the first time? Where we love? Where we learn illness, or break, or perhaps the city in which we rebuild ourselves? Is it the ground our ancestors traveled from before our birth, carrying transgressions and hopes as they searched for home themselves? Or perhaps the place we create as "home" with purpose? If so, what is left for us if that home is taken from us in revelation or heartbreak or the aging of our minds? Do we belong only to the place where we take our last breath or create our last memory in another?

This is the gift Laura Braverman gives us as she paints her own story, line by line, within Salt Water--the questions we may ask of ourselves as we travel our own path."

-Robin Sinclair, author of Letters To My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls-

"If I had to choose one word to describe Laura Braverman's poetry, it would be "graceful." Emotions do not overpower her poems. Even when writing about her father's death, or when beating her wings against the cage of her own illness, her words are measured, and more heartbreaking thereby. She can be lyrical, as she is when writing about goddesses or music or a famous poetess. She has a keen feel for just those things that lead to moments of revelation, both in nature and in art, a lake in the alps or the colors in a painting. Spend an evening with Laura Braverman, let her memories and yearning dance before your eyes. Let her poetry be recompense."

-Ron Searls, author of Trees of Life and Shade

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cosmographia Books (May 7, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 125 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1732269084
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1732269088
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.32 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written personal reflections on human experiences
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2019
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Salt water is an eloquent compilation of poems. Laura Braverman takes us on a moving journey which begins with the death of her father. Her connection to the elements of nature, music, movement and family are elegantly woven through each poem. Laura reflects on her experiences with death, war, divorce and illness with such elegance that it is impossible to read Salt Water without being significantly moved.
One of my favorite poems is “Forgiveness”. “Tell me, if I could lay the tenderness of our experience at your feet—-as an offering—
Would you bless the gift? Would you send me the birds that sing at daybreak?”
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Helene Cardona
5.0 out of 5 stars "Salt Water" is a book of prayer, of faith, an ode to earth and life.
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2019
Laura Braverman has woven herself a magic carpet. Embedded in its tapestry of mystery and transformation, "Salt Water" is a book of prayer, of faith, an ode to earth and life.

At times fairy-tale, at times requiem, "Salt Water" encompasses geography and identity to weave myths and
history, music and tragedy, memory and literature. To quote Peruvian poet Américo Ferrari, there is here
“an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

At the heart of these beautiful, remarkable poems lies a quest to be fully alive. Sifting through geography
and memory, "Salt Water" is a haunting tribute to family love and the human spirit to persevere in a broken
world, a healing balm for the senses and the soul.

~Hélène Cardona, author of "Life in Suspension"
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