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This volume of poems will make your heart swell and your voice erupt in unexpected laughter. It is filled at once with the joy and the pathos of life as we dance on the rim of life at Seabury Retirement Community. Rennie McQuilkin captures the spirit and the hope-filled days that lead us into our future. And when you read, read silently and aloud as well. It will be a life-touching experience.

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This volume of poems will make your heart swell and your voice erupt in unexpected laughter. It is filled at once with the joy and the pathos of life as we dance on the rim of life at Seabury. Rennie McQuilkin captures the spirit and the hope-filled days that lead us into our future. And when you read, read silently and aloud as well. It will be a life-touching experience. - Rev. Dr. Davida Foy Crabtree, Retired United Church of Christ Clergy, Seabury resident In Seabury Seasons, his eighteenth poetry collection, Rennie McQuilkin weaves words that celebrate life and its bountiful small beauties. A heightened consciousness of mortality illuminates the pleasures he finds in his life at Seabury. In his poem, Halloween Migration, McQuilkin writes of a raucous but loving parade of residents in Halloween finery, then segues into the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and ponders the migration of Monarch butterflies, each one an ancestor, arriving in Mexico after their long, exhausting journey, like elders struggling across the finish line. The poem ends with a statement that sums up this whole collection: I love the courage of their joy. - Ginny Lowe Connors, author of Toward the Hanging Tree

"This volume of poems will make your heart swell and your voice erupt in unexpected laughter. It is filled at once with the joy and the pathos of life as we dance on the rim of life at Seabury. Rennie McQuilkin captures the spirit and the hope-filled days that lead us into our future. And when you read, read silently and aloud as well. It will be a life-touching experience. - Rev. Dr. Davida Foy Crabtree, Retired United Church of Christ Clergy, Seabury resident In Seabury Seasons, his eighteenth poetry collection, Rennie McQuilkin weaves words that celebrate life and its bountiful small beauties. A heightened consciousness of mortality illuminates the pleasures he finds in his life at Seabury. In his poem, ""Halloween Migration,"" McQuilkin writes of a raucous but loving parade of residents in Halloween finery, then segues into the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and ponders the migration of Monarch butterflies, ""each one an ancestor,"" arriving in Mexico after their long, exhausting journey, ""like elders struggling across the finish line."" The poem ends with a statement that sums up this whole collection: ""I love the courage of their joy."" - Ginny Lowe Connors, author of Toward the Hanging Tree"

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Rennie McQuilkin was Poet Laureate of Connecticut from 2015 through 2018, when he retired because of illness. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The American Scholar, Crazyhorse, and elsewhere. This is his eightteenth poetry collection. He has received a number of awards for his work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Connecticut Center for the Book. In 2010 his volume of new and selected poems, The Weathering, was awarded the Center's annual poetry prize under the aegis of the Library of Congress; and in 2018, North of Eden received the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Poetry. For nine years he directed the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, which he co-founded at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut. With his wife, the artist Sarah McQuilkin, he lives in Bloomfield, CT.

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