DOUBLE STREAM

The author, Ellen Dooling Reynard, refers to this collection as "ekphrastic poetry".  The word "ekphrasis" refers to poems about works of art, usually including an exploration of how the speaker is impacted or transformed by his or her experience with the work. This book of poems is about the paintings and drawings of the author's late husband, the French painter Paul Reynard (1927-2005). Color prints of the artist's work are included along with the poems.  In the introduction the author expresses "love and gratitude for my late husband, Paul Reynard, whose light-filled paintings shine in my home."

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Old Age & Young Hearts

This collection of poems, edited by Ellen Reynard and Judie Rae, celebrates the joys and challenges of aging as experienced by a talented array of women poets over 60. In this chapbook-length anthology, we read about the many feelings which accompany this final stage of life: the pain of losing lifelong friends and family members, the pathos as well as the hilarity or memory glitches, the appreciation of late-blooming beauty of body and spirit, and joy for the liberation from the need to prove ourselves in this competitive world.

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 NO BATTERIES REQUIRED

In No Batteries Required, Ellen Dooling Reynard examines the world around her from the perspective of her inner world. She considers what she calls 'moments and non moments'—those brief stops along the way to look at something as simple as a flower or to witness something as complex as the death of a loved one. As a senior, she looks back on her life, its joys and sorrows, its loves and losses, while she navigates the unknown currents of old age and ponders about the journeys of life, death and what lies beyond. Observing the natural world, she recognizes what is to be learned about the human condition from animals, insects, and plants. In the final title poem, Reynard muses about the craft of writing with a pencil, which she describes as a simple computational device with one end for ’enter,’ the other end for ‘delete.’

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