Description: Life's most fundamental questions are raised in this elegant short poetry collection by Jed Myers. In the end, the poems in Love's Test acknowledge our separateness, and our struggles to connect, but also affirm the power of our willingness to try and try again.
Review Quotes:
When we're young, love's test is simply to find it. In mid-life, love's test is to hold onto it as we're tossed around by the years. In our late years, the task is letting go, even as love is deeply lodged within us. The poems in Love's Test give the reader an intimate look through the eyes of one meeting the deep challenges of reconciliation. There is great joy and wisdom in this beautifully-written book.
--Leslie McGrath, author of Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives.
Jed Myers' Love's Test begins with seeking proof--some evidence that we are not separate from others--and ends with the image of an "elegant firework // purple allium burst on its long stem." In between are questions of belief and doubt, a voice sometimes set firm and other times set adrift, a voice at times convinced of having passed love's test and other times unconvinced, aware of how "chaos [is] taking its time with us." Does anything "suggest / the least imminence"? Myers, with a "self // made of secret defiance," steps forth to say yes, even if he must "claim / the impossible."
--Jeff Hardin, author, A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being
Myers answers the question at the heart of this collection, "Haven't we each more than once failed / love's test?" with a broken yes. Love's Test holds its heart in its hands--we may find our hearts there too.
--Heidi Seaborn, author, Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do}