The Stolen From
Anna M. Evans has trained with the National Center for Creative Aging and conducts poetry workshops at a residential center for older adults with memory loss.
These poignant and honest poems provide portraits not only of individuals living with the disease, but also of their carers, alongside ruminations on Alzheimer's, on residential homes, and even on the nature of memory itself.
“Anna Evans brings to her well-wrought poems the compassion and respect that come from having worked with the men and women she writes about. She has gone into the night mines and brought back a handful of dementia's diamonds.” ~ John Foy
The collection includes the poem "Zeitgeber," winner of the 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award.
“'Zeitgeber' is refreshing and beautiful: 'For Iris fidgets there, among the blooms/ She says, Is this a maze? I think I’m lost.' Wow! What a powerful, and true, description of Alzheimer’s. These lines draw me right into the poem, and it never lets me go. What a treat it is to be swept off my feet by a poem! ~ T.R. Poulson
Launched: April 7th, 2013.
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Back Road by Jim Burrows
Nothing In-Between by Marybeth Rua-Larsen
Self-Portrait as Bettie Page by Heidi Czerwiec
Shadows and Gifts by Quincy R. Lehr
High Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari
