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    Gesture
    Gesture
    Gesture
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    Gesture

    By Nancy Jakobsson

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    In these often quiet but probing poems, Nancy Jakobsson illuminates lives and worlds--her own life and the lives of those she has counseled in their losses in her work as a grief therapist, the natural world she walks through, and the imaginative world she encounters deeply through works of art. Her attention is steady, whether she is looking at her own roots, the stories of those she has come to know, birds winging over a river path in winter, or Andy Goldsworthy's stones. She is alive to the gestures of each thing she encounters, and each becomes a source of astonishment. Life is here, witnessed with compassion. The mountains are here, counterpointing the sorrows. Works of art are here, singing of solace and delight.

    Veronica Patterson
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 29, 2011
    ISBN9781462031061
    Gesture
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    Nancy Jakobsson

    Nancy Jakobsson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has worked as a grief cousnelor for twenty years. She is the Director of Pathways for Grief and Loss in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is a member of a friends writing group that encourages and supports each other in their writing endeavors. She lives in Loveland Colorado and enjoys Colorado's outdoor life style. Her two adult sons also live in Colorado.

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      Gesture - Nancy Jakobsson

      Copyright © 2011 by Nancy Jakobsson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4620-3105-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-3106-1 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 07/26/2011

      For those who have shared their stories with me and those who have shared in mine.

      Gesture

      Every object, every person has a natural gesture or line of movement that is individual and specific. In drawing, one hopes to capture the essence of that line, give life to the subject.

      Notes from a drawing class with Doug Erion

      Special thank you to Veronica Patterson, inspiring teacher, gentle guide and supportive friend.

      "Instructions for living a life:

      Pay attention.

      Be astonished.

      Tell about it."

      Mary Oliver, Sometimes

      Contents

      I

      The Cold

      First Sonnet

      This Is the Cold

      Listen Well

      The Cat Has Her Way

      Wrightwood Avenue

      Waiting for the Tea to Simmer on a Cold Autumn Morning Before Leaving on a Long Journey

      What If

      Litany of Color

      Progress Notes

      Horses Lost and Found

      II

      What Is

      A Conversation.

      Receiving the News

      Sunday Visits

      Let

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