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© 2007 by Cindy Savett
Published by Parlor Press
Available from your local independent
bookstore or from amazon.com. You can also buy it directly from the publisher in three forms:
Paper, $15.00
Cloth, $30.00
Acrobat eBook on CD, $14.00
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Upcoming Readings
October 4 , 2010 6:30 p.m.
The Monday Poets Reading Series
Skyline Room
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Selected Past Readings
April 6, 2010
with Jean Valentine
The Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
March 30, 2010
Thomas Jefferson University
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, PA 19107
2009
October 15
Widener University
One University Place
Chester, PA 19013
May 27
with Nick Samaras and Maggie Schwed
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
NYC 10014
April 21
with Ray Garman
Green Line Café
4426 Locust Street
(corner of 45th & Locust)
Philadelphia, PA
April 18
Barnes & Noble
Southmont Center
4445 Southmont Way
Easton, PA 18045
610.515.0376
April 3
Pete's Big Poetry Series
Pete's Candy Store
with Carrie Olivia Adams, Joshua Harmon, and Steven Karl
709 Lorimer street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
New York 11211
718.302.3770
March 31
Thomas Jefferson University
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, PA 19107
2008
December 7
with Allen Hoey, Bill Wunder,
and Miriam Kotzin
Manayunk Arts Center
419 Green Lane (rear)
Philadelphia, PA 19128
October 23
Widener University
One University Place
Chester, PA 19013
August 17
with Ari Banias, Carol J. Clouse,
and Chris Robinson
Word of Mouth
Bluestockings Radical Books
172 Allen St.
New York, NY 10002
May 30
Borders Bookstore
940 Plaza Boulevard
Lancaster, PA
April 13
with Bruce Mackinnon
and Claudia Carlson
440 Gallery
440 Sixth Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
March 15
with Chip Livingston, Marc Straus,
and Richard Tayson
The Ear Inn
326 Spring St.
New York, NY
February 28
with Kate Greenstreet
Robin's Bookstore
108 S 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA
January 31
with C.D. Wright, Eleni Sikelianos, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Adam Clay, Graham Foust, Zachary Schomburg, Jon Thompson, and others
The Burning Chair
East Coast Aliens
216 Franklin St.
Brooklyn, NY
Child in the Road is a mother's response to
the sudden death of her young daughter, a rendering of the wide range of emotions experienced afterwards--not description, but an expression of grief from its center. The poems pull vivid imagery from the deepest layers of the unconscious, postcards from a sleepwalker unable to find rest, waking again and again in the wrong story. Who is alive and who is dead? What does it mean to go on living, "eyes searching / under the earth"?
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About the Author
Cindy Savett teaches poetry workshops to psychiatric inpatients at Friends Hospital. She has published her poetry in a wide variety of print and online journals, including Margie, Heliotrope, LIT, The Marlboro Review, 26 Magazine, Cutbank, and Free Verse. Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, she currently lives in Merion, Pennsylvania, with her family.
Click here to read an article about Cindy in Main Line Life.
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Praise for Child in the Road
With a rare combination of intensity fused to grace, the poems in Cindy Savett's first collection, Child in the Road, feel as if they might have been written by a sailor who walked the plank and disappeared into the depths. The poems care nothing for the events or ordinary logic of life on land. They never come up for air--and don't seem to have to. It is as if Savett created each line with an extraordinary lung capacity, so that her poetry can live at the bottom of the ocean of the unconscious--enabling us to live there, too.... The poems shape a brilliant coral reef discovered in the waters of a turbulent dream.
--Molly Peacock
author of Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems
I read Child in the Road as one long poem, lyric, meditative, wheeling, fierce; for all its richness of language, it seems to be reaching for some place beyond language, from which to mourn the death of a young child:
bless this plate of bones
bless this twisted flight
this first of hours
bless this carrying horse
knees bent
on Mother's Trail.
--Jean Valentine
author of The Cradle of the Real Life and the 2004 National Book Award winner, Door in the Mountain
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Reviews
“The form-giving work of poetry,” writes Susan Stewart in Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, “is to counter the oblivion of darkness.” That poetry can somehow bring both reader and poet up from the depths underlies the poems in Cindy Savett’s first book, Child in the Road. The collection of poems can be read as one extended work in which the author at turns mourns, prays, and rages...
--Pamela Hart
Galatea Resurrects
[read the full review here]
I could not read this book without tearing up. It is essentially a book of grief and commemoration of the loss of a child. Savett's writing is very graceful, so the book feels more like a writing through of grief than a screaming lament...
--Bill Allegrezza
The Daily Glance
[read the full review here]
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Links to Poems Online
5 poems
at word for / word
"the hanging "
at Moria
"begun" and "dull thud"
at Free Verse
"across the rabid sky" and "light"
at Cultural Society
"blooms" and "guardian"
at Apocryphaltext
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Video Online
Cindy reading with Jean Valentine
at Kelly Writers House
on April 6, 2010
Cindy's reading at Green Line Café
on April 21, 2009:
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