Perturbations
Sam Calhoun
Alien Buddha Press, 2025
ISBN-13: 979-8302237866
Ebook, 39 ppg.
While adjusting to our grief, we look for things that provide comfort and guidance. We turn to things that help us to heal from our pain and find our way in the dark. As the poems show in the new collection Perturbations by Sam Calhoun, nature is what he has turned to in his time of grief.
Through his connection with nature, he finds solace, understanding and peace. It is in nature where he is better able to express his pain and his need for connection with others.
As he writes on page 23:
“Speak to me
like the trees
do not believe
in love anymore”
It is where he calls for open, honest dialogue with those closest to him.
When we are struggling with grief, we tend to relate to things outside of ourselves in a different way. Our pain brings us to another perspective and we see things differently. That is what happens here with these poems. (Example: "Smoke climbs/like rose branches,/thermals through bones/bare of the world").
This short collection of poetry provided a huge impact for this reader. Filled with poems containing imagery and metaphor, these almost lyrical verses swept me away to a calmer state of nature that offered hope and comfort. It’s certainly a sweet collection of poems I enjoyed reading, and one in which I shall turn to again in trying times.
Five stars.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book as part of my digital subscription with the publisher.
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