tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post4993999842363379676..comments2023-10-30T06:38:39.170-07:00Comments on Snow Branches: All The Missing Names Of Love - A ReviewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post-73130317443206648852012-05-31T07:06:33.317-07:002012-05-31T07:06:33.317-07:00How amazing to obliquely be compared to Mary Olive...How amazing to obliquely be compared to Mary Oliver and David Whyte, almost, David!<br /><br />Sr Ann Marie – how kind of you. The poems in this collection are mostly personal meditations on love, loss, death and hope. Last year's collection, 'Bardo' ('Shearsman Books'), contains poems that are somehow more abstract and bigger in compass, and include too Buddhist-type reflections that to my mind have a Franciscan flavour (in a different life I might have gone that way; and by the way my sister is just about to - not sure of the word - 'be ordained'? 'take office'? as a lay Franciscan, and I forwarded her yesterday a link to your blog from this site of David's) - I wonder whether they might better suit the notion of 'prayer'? I'm not plugging my books, though! – just wondering which one you might find mostly closely fits prayer... But I guess the approach to the sacred that underpins a person's work or life manifests in any form.<br /><br />Taradharma – v touched by your response, too. Thank you. <br /><br />Deep bows to you all!rosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post-58357779508590196142012-05-30T11:14:23.135-07:002012-05-30T11:14:23.135-07:00I had trouble putting it on the bookshelf after I ...I had trouble putting it on the bookshelf after I finished it - I had to read it a couple of times more. Finally it sits next to Mary Oliver and David Whyte.David Ashtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18339979176989832285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post-17960550864042632022012-05-30T09:45:22.101-07:002012-05-30T09:45:22.101-07:00thank you for sharing this wonderful work -- the l...thank you for sharing this wonderful work -- the lines from Wild Garlic especially touching. I will happily add this book to my collection.Taradharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665801586196931603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post-15077496093767783002012-05-30T08:51:21.558-07:002012-05-30T08:51:21.558-07:00Hi Sr. Ann Marie, so nice of you to drop in! I ord...Hi Sr. Ann Marie, so nice of you to drop in! I ordered my copy from the publisher <a href="http://www.indigodreamsbookshop.com/#/roselle-angwin-love/4562168334" rel="nofollow">Indigo Dreams</a>.David Ashtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18339979176989832285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post-80476087815760759642012-05-30T05:33:20.102-07:002012-05-30T05:33:20.102-07:00Thank you for sharing these quotes--so beautiful a...Thank you for sharing these quotes--so beautiful and thought-provoking. I think it would be a wonderful source for prayer. I must see if I can find this book!Sr. Ann Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306386663608358131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post-53630091269719403022012-05-30T05:29:50.206-07:002012-05-30T05:29:50.206-07:00A deep bow back, Roselle. As I tweeted, it would h...A deep bow back, Roselle. As I tweeted, it would have been positively greedy of me not to share such a treasure!David Ashtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18339979176989832285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803595820939776322.post-61054664704794923042012-05-30T03:39:04.588-07:002012-05-30T03:39:04.588-07:00David, I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes ...David, I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes at your care in COPYING OUT those passages, as well as your generosity in choosing to review my book in the first place.<br /><br />There are many acts of love, and those are two.<br /><br />A deep bow of warmth and gratitude to you, my friend.<br /><br />Rosellerosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.com