Reviews
About Syringa
I received your book and kept turning pages, turning pages, reading. I'll definitely use it with Writing and the Creative Process (PSU course) second semester. Wow!
Professor Lynn Chong, Plymouth State University
Mary Rees titled her book on Dhamma, BEING PRAYER. Thich Nhat Hanh equates mindfulness with the holy ghost. Mary Oliver writes: "I don't know exactly what a prayer is, I do know how to pay attention." That's what Laura Davies Foley's poems do. They pay attention.
The poems themselves "relax and attend." They free the spirit into resiliency and breath. In so doing, certainly for their creator and potentially for their readers, the poems have the power to heal broken wings and teach them to fly.
In reading the poems in Syringa you might even feel, as Paul McCartney wrote so long ago: "All my life, I've been only waiting for this moment to arrive."
Doreen Schweizer, Guiding Teacher, Valley Insight Meditation Society
We LOVE your book of poems, Syringa.
What a wonderful poet you are! You totally speak to me!!
Annie B Bond Executive Producer, Care2 Healthy Living, Author of Home Enlightenment
Any person who has ever loved and lost and who continues to seek wholeness and peace needs Syringa on their bedside table. Thank you for sharing your path and your heart with us.
Sue Gillmor
Mapping the Fourth Dimension
"My hand reaches through the spaces to touch/ the ones who are not there," writes Laura Davies Foley in the title poem of this collection. These poems are eloquent about loss and silence. How does the world look once we realize it will never again be the world we want? Laura Davies Foley's poems ask that question again and again and give us the answers of a lifetime.
--Will Walker, author of Carrying Water
"In this collection of poetry, Mapping the Fourth Dimension, Laura Davies Foley meditates upon the death of a significant love with poems that are dreamy and ecstatic. Fused with the terrible knowledge that comes only with direct experience she writes: "I knew then what Dido must haveknown at her fiery end." Using direct plain language she invites the reader into her world of loss, which is simultaneously, a world suffused with hope."
--Jackson Wheeler, Founder of The Ventura Poetry Festival, Former co-editor of Solo, author of Swimming Past Iceland and contributor to A Near Country: Poems of Loss.
