Redirection of the Heart

by Deborah Gordon Cooper

The poems in this collection were written in response to the gradual loss of the poet's father to Alzheimers Disease.   “Writing these poems enabled me to let go of my father, bit by bit, as he drifted away…and at the same time, to hold on to him. I believe that the creative process offers us a way to transform our grief.”

Deborah Gordon Cooper

Poet & Chaplain

“Deborah Gordon Cooper tackles a common, inevitable life stage, the death of a parent, and transforms it into a series of extraordinary experiences.   This collection smoothly glides from the pain of loss and grief to the affirmations of (natural and supernatural) eternal life.”

Kimberly Willardson

Editor, Vincent Brothers Review

“These are beautiful poems of light and seeing, of touch and sound, full of sensory experiences and feelings that become palpable on the page.   Her poems help us see that thin membrane between the living and the dead.   The inescapable, hard realities of pain and grief, the awful grayness of dementia, and death, all yield without self-pity or sentimentality to the luminous “plays of light” that Deborah captures and lets shine in this remarkable volume of poems.”

Becky Evans

Editor, the Vision

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