Description:
The poems of A Bright Forgetting tell the author's journey of care for her aging parents, as she remembers them and her family. It is an exploration of how to say goodbye.
Brief description: Lynne Martin Bowman was The Comstock Review's National Chapbook Contest winner for Water Never Sleeps. Also, she has been Sonora Review's Poetry Prize winner and Crab Orchard Review's Poetry Prize 2nd Place. Her work has appeared in the Emily Dickinson Award Anthology, Southern Poetry Review, The Mississippi Review, and The International Poetry Review, among others. She lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband and rescued dogs and cat.
Review Quotes: "The world discards everything, even itself," writes Lynne Martin Bowman, and goes on to reclaim her mother, her father, and what they stopped remembering. The poems in A Bright Forgetting save enough to fill an egg basket and the Grand Canyon.
-Sarah Lindsay, National Book Award Nominee for Primate BehaviorA Bright Forgetting gives us poems about aging parents, family, and loss, but also about the celebration of life and the strength in remembering. Lynne Martin Bowman has given us a powerful collection on how to love.-Leah Huete de Maines, Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Northern Kentucky University