You Are Home

by Cornelia Hoogland

You Are Home, Cornelia Hoogland's newest book of poetry, is an exploration of life through verse. The book is dominated by images of flowers, forests and night. These provide the backdrop for poems on the death of a parent, childhood and parental anxiety, the ending of a romantic relationship, and finally the discovery of the self. The scope of this volume is at once universal and intensely personal. It is a book for anyone who has ever lost a loved one. It is for anyone who has ever confronted the anxiety of aging. It is also for anyone who has ever had love fail them...