ISBN 978-1-926956-00-8
BookLand Press
The river winds through "Above and Below the Waterline," the first collection of poetry by Marianne Paul. The author navigates the joy and the grief that is life in the process of being lived, those events and passages that mark the flow of time, the undercurrents of family, the rough waters and calm waters, the challenges and dysfunction - but beneath it all, love. Water speaks volumes, Marianne Paul tells us. The poet learns to read river in the same way a child learns to read symbols on the page - the contours and patterns that hint of submerged rocks, that forewarn of swifts and rapids, the shallows, the gentleness and respite of flat waters.
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“Marianne Paul’s Above and Below The Waterline reads like a scrapbook of memories locked inside Pandora’s box. These are poems of searing honesty and of deep consequence which weave poignant stories that transcend mere narrative.” ~ CHRIS BANKS
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Above and Below the Waterline is available on Kobo.