Inside Out and Upside Down. Which one of us hasn’t felt that way at some point in our lives?
In her new book of poetry, Terri Bosner shines a light on emotions and circumstances that we humans go through in our lives. Not everyone may have experienced a stay in the hospital, when we didn’t know what was wrong with us, or if we would ever make it back out—not to mention having to see all that goes on in a neurosurgery ward. But Bosner is able to take this time in her life, and more than just write about it, put it into words that elicit laughter and a calm knowing that our time here is what it is, nothing more, nothing less. All the running around in the world ain’t gonna’ change that, nor will hiding behind our material possessions, as is made eerily clear in the poem The Living Dead.
Not everyone has had to surrender their alcohol habit like in the poem Surrender, or had the strife of losing their brother, as in Brothers, or been kept awake at night by broken dreams and bad choices like in the poem Tormented. Bosner asks you to Join Me Here and explore sorrow, contentment, strife and bliss---for without these we’ll miss out on what makes a life.
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Not your everyday dinner conversation, a lot of Bosner’s poetry touches on the seamy side of life—the down in the trenches part of life that sets a lot of us squirming in our chairs. It seems as if we acknowledge the pain and agony of some people’s lives we’ll have to share in the responsibility, face the pain together, look for inspiration in a reflection, come home to ourselves, understand that they are our brother and not the other. Bosner’s poetry brings together the black and the white, the yin and the yang. She asks us to reach deep in our hearts and understand the misunderstood, and truly, if we read carefully, she has given us, with this first book of poetry, directions on exactly how to do this.
To really get an idea of Bosner’s work, come and hear her perform the poems from her new book, Inside Out & Upside Down, at Copper Sky Gallery in Pender Harbour on Saturday Dec 1st from 2 to 4 pm. Terri will be available for book signing and a question and answer period. Books go on sale Dec 1st at Talewind Books in Sechelt and Copper Sky Gallery in Pender Harbour.
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