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what do you do, now, in the aftermath of forever? in the postscript your bleeding hands can barely write? walk on, my child, and fall like a star. for it is the only way you too will be reborn.

TRAVERSALS is a poetry & prose collection about love and loss, wildness and bewilderment, resiliency and restlessness. The beauty in cracking open, the beauty in discovery and rediscovery, the beauty in trusting the journey. It's about the people who come in and out of our lives - the ghosts we are haunted by and the ghosts we become to others.. And how to navigate the world, and the rest of our lives, in their alternating presence or absence.

It's the near-chronological and achingly honest retelling of Queens, NYC-born writer/poet Audrey Dimola's life from Fall 2011 to present, catalyzed that season by the passing of a loved one, the dissolution of a long-term relationship, a shifting career, a kaleidoscopic sense and loss of identity, and, of course, crossing paths with the gorgeously explosive muse that would strike the broad arc of the book - and all the moments in between.

It's a love letter to all those moments we will never see again. To falling, and falling again. An exploration through both the flames and the ashes of "the burning architecture of the heart."

PRAISE FOR TRAVERSALS

"...a heartrending journey bursting into redemption." -joan willette, writer & educator

"You're a warrior of light and a beacon of strength for what words can do. Truly you are a force. One candle can fill a dark room. But a star..." -brandon perdomo, curator, musician & photographer

"TRAVERSALS is a cracking open that always points to the immutable love that's inside all human experience. Audrey Dimola's poems are a guide to finding that and reminding us what is always underneath. This is a book of poetry that you will turn to, again and again, like a friend along the way." -valerie g. keane, writer & founder of poetry & coffee

"Audrey Dimola is the personification of creativity, talent and light. The book is no doubt a reflection of the energy and light Audrey emits, and reads fluidly and vulnerably. It is an embodiment of fireworks depicted on paper - words exploding and erupting with each turn of the page. TRAVERSALS is both empowering and moving." -sana hussain, writer & managing editor of give me astoria

"the backbone of this book is a celebration of the knowing + the unknowing in one life + heart. of memories + freedom. a call to those warriors we meet on the paths we take who bring us light. that stranger who becomes a lover who becomes a ghost. the one who leaves an imprint in our desert for the rest of time like the eroding of rock turned river. the ghosts of our past, of ourselves, of promises long broken. and what we choose to do with these ghosts..." -nick neon, film + music video director, screenwriter & creative director

"Audrey = magic. Every day. Get the book - it's a stunner." -anne born, author

if you can't move, let the breath move..
if you can't be the ship, be the oar.
if you can't be the oar, be the compass.
if you can't be the compass, be the slightest stirring
in the voyager's heart that told him -
i will not waste this day like all the others.
if you can't be the voyager, be the faintest flickering
of the arrow magnetized towards whatever is greater -
whatever you can see in that last moment,
with your eyes widened and the water in your lungs -
that suddenly makes you forget how to drown...

About the Author: "Western Queens poet extraordinaire" (Brownstoner) Audrey Dimola is "as charismatic personally as she is in her writing" (Underground Books), aiming to set off firecrackers of enthusiasm in everyone she crosses paths with. Infinitely curious and hell-bent on painting her world in the brightest colors possible, she is a proudly born-and-raised Queens, New York writer/poet, performer, curator, cross-genre collaborator, and ever-intrepid literary explorer. Celebrated for her dynamic presence both onstage and on the page, she has performed at Bowery Poetry Club and Brooklyn Museum, curated shows for LaGuardia Performing Arts Center and Queens Museum, and has been featured on NY1 TV and in various Queens/NYC media outlets.. But what she really wants you to know is that you should never give up hope - because the magic only stops when you say so. Audrey is also the author of 2012 poetry & prose collection "Decisions We Make While We Dream," a retrospective of her work from 2000 to 2012. She aims always to stay wild & stay grateful - and there's a pretty good chance she's Peter Pan. audreydimola.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781501095986
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1501095986
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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