Description: This collection of free verse poetry written in a sentient intellect knows an inviolability of thinking free and imposed, reflecting experiences of breaking consciousness and broken conscience and the fragility of the existential self - the result partly of personal life conflict that ran through my nervous system with long term repercussion - and then of a more tenacious being forging life enhancing clarity in vulnerability and healing.
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FOREWORD AND CLARION REVIEWS
The Rainstorm
Rachel Downing
AuthorHouseUK (Nov 15, 2021)
The mysterious free verses collected in The Rainstorm explore the power of language and the paradoxes of the self.
Rachel Downing's poetry collection The Rainstorm delves into a world of opposing forces centered in the self.
Throughout, The Rainstorm explores the often conflicting aspects of a single consciousness using enigmatic images. Some may experience the poems' abstractions as invitations to multiple readings, used to construct a logical, spiritual, or emotional sensibility; often, though, the book seems to be a private communication with one's self.
The free verses collected in The Rainstorm explore the power of language and the paradoxes of the self in mysterious ways.
MICHELE SHARPE (March 29, 2022)