Paddling the Sweet Spot
Between Life and Death
will be published
by Finishing Line Press.
Release date is March 27, 2026.
"It took a cancer crisis to develop internal infrared vision and see life in the dark. Life doesn't begin after certain things happen. Life won't start again when I'm well. It's happening right now no matter my waiting for an 'all clear' or a death knell..." - Laura E. Garrard
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“Laura E. Garrard’s poems are courageous compass-settings for navigating a place of balance and bodily, emotional and spiritual contending…” -Tess Gallagher, author of Is, Is Not
“The experiences of these poems by Laura E. Garrard reveal that for every corridor of grief there are as many rooms of sustaining light, and that is very human, that’s being much alive.” -Gary Copeland Lilley, poet and author of Raven on the Moaners’ Bench and The Bushman’s Medicine Show
“These vivid, sensory poems take us along as she swims in the wake of spotted dolphins, sees messages in barn swallows at play, and listens to alders at the edge of the lake where she finds peace. In the end, we arrive at her epiphany with gratitude for her hard-earned wisdom: ‘The closer we are to the glass door of death / The freer we are to cornerstone live.’” -Holly J. Hughes, author of Passings, winner of an American Book Award
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