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Both intimate and generalizable, the poems in Source Notes: Seventh Decade revolve around two core questions: "If everything we said to define ourselves/ was preceded by Just like everyone or/ Like most of us, what would shift/ in the life-long construction project/ we call our self?" and "Who says age can't be luxurious,/ astonishing, sui generis?" Moving freely between public events and highly personal ones, both past and present, the poems in this collection explore creativity, the sweetness of age, the joys of marriage, early trauma, motherhood, family relationships, the surprising resonances of travel and the mysteries of savoring in place. Within and between poems patterns appear, disappear, transform, and new stories, without our noticing, come into being, teaching us again and again "we are never too old for rebirth, the hold of the miraculous."

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“Heather Tosteson's Source Notes: Seventh Decade is a brave, unvarnished reassessment of the poet's life, an unsentimental reckoning that celebrates awe, wonder, and gratitude, while accepting and confronting remorse, betrayal, and loss. . . . In lyrical poems that beguile with their music, and stun with their candor, Heather Tosteson invites us to share ‘the ripe wild fruit of eternity.’"
—Gary Young, author of That's What I Thought: Poems and New and
Selected Poems

“In these meticulously-crafted poems, Heather Tosteson evocatively limns one woman's courageous and authentic journey as she revisits the past, explores and marvels at the present, and dares to imagine a bountiful future for herself and humankind across the globe. Visual art woven throughout Source Notes: Seventh Decade complements and enhances text that reads not only as a poignant and powerful poetry collection, but also as a compelling, narrative-driven memoir-in-short-chapters.”
.—Janice Eidus, author of The Last Jewish Virgin and The War of the Rosens

"In Source Notes: Seventh Decade, Heather Tosteson maps the inner livesof women in a way that is both mystical and deeply intellectual, keepingalive poetry's big questions of transcendence, revelation, awe, and groundedpresence in the ordinary. What a large and compassionate gift to the reader.”
—Mary Kay Rummel, author of Nocturnes: Between Flesh and Stone

ISBN:978-1-7324514-8-3      
220 pp

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