Staying Found
Martha Christina (1997)
$25.00 softcover first edition collectable
$25.00 softcover first edition collectable
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Accessible and fulfilling, the poems in Staying Found present the mythic poles of Lost and Found and the uncharted human condition between those poles. Language maps help to define the contours of existence for both young and old, and transcribing the life-journey of flesh is a means of spiritual survival. Martha Christina suggests that staying found may be a matter of inclusiveness, that home has an ever-expanding horizon.
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Praise for Staying Found
"Martha Christina writes with a strong, true voice and a clear compass-eye, guiding us through far and close countries with confidence and curiosity. The lost and found are indelibly wover here. I feel deeply befriended by these fine poems."
— Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Habibi
"The poems in Staying Found draw parallels and establish connections between two families-the one in which the poet was a child and the one in which she is a wife and mother. The voice is clear, unflinching, and mature; this is a solid first book."
— Maxine Kumin, author of Connecting the Dots
"Martha Christina's subject is family, in no easy sense of the word; she is concerned with the mystery of the loyalties, longings, and trouble which bind us together 'with a force like the design/and chance of gravity. Staying Found is a splendid debut, a moving, disquieting book marked by the courage to study the place where our deepest enchantments and griefs reside: home."
— Mark Doty, author of Atlantis
