Description: The Heart Is Not a Pump is a collection of poems that reads like a journal of confidences, mingled with poems that speak to the reverence of the human body and experience. From moments of heartache to ponderings on the physics of light and the beauty of anatomy, The Heart Is Not a Pump traverses the everyday divine.
Brief description: Aurore Sibley lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her two children. She is an education specialist with a background in the healing arts, a performing musician, and somehow finds time to write essays, poetry and short stories in her spare time. She believes that the arts and sciences are more closely connected than is generally warranted. Her writing has appeared in various journalistic publications, including Lilipoh magazine and The Idea Crucible.
Review Quotes:
In Aurore Sibley's beautiful collection, full of surprises and meditations, we are reminded that the body takes us everywhere, whether we like it or not. Through finely wrought moments and illuminations, Sibley reminds us that at the end of the day, we are truly "One continuous and ephemeral manifestation of becoming and grace...these walking temples of bone and water, and ancient memory."
Caroline Goodwin