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The Next Place
By Warren Hanson. Waldman House Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1997. [34 pp. w/color
illustration]
Reviewed by: Meg Wickes, Hospice Volunteer.
Suggestively displayed poetic fragments swim in and out of rich visual
surroundings on each page of this remarkable book created to open the hearts and
souls of seeking teens and adults.
The reader must experience this as a work of art for which any king of
ordinary critique of its art and poetry must be irrelevant, even impertinent. It
accomplishes the near impossible, speaking in a combining of words and pictures
to our deepest hopes and anxieties.
Here it a bit of the poetry: "The next place that I go will be so
quiet and so still
That the whispered song of sweet belonging will rise up to
fill the listening sky with joyful silence with unheard harmonies of music made
by no one playing-like a hush upon a breeze"
A seeker, picking up this handsome volume, cannot help but be deeply moved
and is in for a journey through the inevitable joys and the dark moments of
earth life into a transformed place in which all earthly baggage is irrelevant;
a place where there is only love and an incredible lightness of
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