Through the Kaleidoscope - by Carey Link (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> </p><p>In a kaleidoscope, the pieces of color and light go wherever they will. In Carey Link's <em>Through the Kaleidoscope</em>, feelings tend to precede understanding. In a quiet "fold" and "shifting," Link guides her reader through the sensually known realities of this world, such as bittersweet chocolate-raspberry. However, these concrete pieces are not a permanent destination. Link takes one further into her poetic imagination, primarily through the abstract in which the concrete images move. Like the kaleidoscope, Link does not lay out for the reader what mystery exists in the multi-colored lights. We must find it for ourselves, in her "rounded puffs of breath," "the colors of a whisper," "the ghost" we must let go</p><p>Carey Link lives in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2008, she graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alabama, Huntsville. She is living with Cerebral Palsy. In 2017, two years after developing metastatic breast cancer, she medically retired from sixteen years working in civilian personnel and Equal Employment Opportunity as a civil servant on Redstone Arsenal.</p><p>Coping with her disabilities has taught Carey patience and gratitude. She has never stopped moving forward and is working toward an M.S. in counseling at Faulkner University. After she completes her degree, her goal is to work with clients living with life-altering illnesses or conditions.</p><p>Carey's poems have previously appeared in <em>Birmingham Poetry Review, Hospital Drive, Poem<strong> </strong></em>and elsewhere. In 2011, her poetry sequence titled, <em>What it Means to Climb a Tree<strong>, </strong></em><strong> </strong>was released by Finishing Line Press and in 2017 her poetry collection, <em>Awakening to Holes in the Arc of Sun</em> (Mule on a Ferris Wheel) was awarded second place in the Alabama State Poetry Society Book of the Year contest. Carey's forthcoming chapbook, <em>I Walk a Frayed Tightrope Without a Safety Net</em><strong>, </strong> will be released by Finishing Line Press in 2021.</p><p>Carey enjoys mentoring emerging writers with disabilities through The Handy, Uncapped Pen online program.<strong> </strong> </p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>It's difficult to do justice to Carey Link's exquisite poetry. Suspended between earth and sky, yet touching both, her poems create a richly-hued world both tactile and ethereal, a world of shifting colors and unpredictable juxtapositions. Whether walking through an hourglass sideways or swerving through asymmetric switchbacks, they traverse the landscapes of imagination and dream, yet directly acknowledge -- while acting as charms against -- hard realities such as living with metastatic cancer. For me, Carey Link's poems are like window crystals, casting rainbows and flashes of illumination that penetrate to the still point at the heart of things, beyond words. </p><p>-- Susan Luther, Author of <em>Breathing in the Dark: Poems</em></p><p>There are no wasted words in Ms. Link's poems. Count on it: there is even a poem that's only three words longer than the short title. Still, uniting this collection are roundness, circles, and curves that abound throughout. The brevity of her poems is refreshing: yet with poems such as <em>Infinity</em>, there is somehow a succinct revelation that some poems never end. Travel with her all the way to <em>Saturn</em>.</p><p>-- Mike Wahl, Author of <em>Living Adverbially</em>, published by Finishing Line Press </p><p> </p><p>In a kaleidoscope, the pieces of color and light go wherever they will. In Carey Link's <em>Through the Kaleidoscope</em>, feelings tend to precede understanding. In a quiet "fold" and "shifting," Link guides her reader through the sensually known realities of this world, such as bittersweet chocolate-raspberry. However, these concrete pieces are not a permanent destination. Link takes one further into her poetic imagination, primarily through the abstract in which the concrete images move. Like the kaleidoscope, Link does not lay out for the reader what mystery exists in the multi-colored lights. We must find it for ourselves, in her "rounded puffs of breath," "the colors of a whisper," "the ghost" we must let go.</p><p>-- Bonnie Roberts, Author of <em>To Hide in the Light; Bonnie Roberts: Greatest Hits</em><em>; </em></p><p><em> Dancing in Straw with a Two-Headed Calf; and Dusting for Prints </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><br>
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