✓ Book Review É The City Beyond the Ninth Wave: Poems for Healing and the Sometimes Lonely by Erin Sandlin ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB

In the Irish Celtic tradition, the mortal realm of experience was bounded by the Ninth Wave. Beyond was strictly Other, often equated with death or supernatural regions, and exiles were said to be cast beyond this point. Loneliness may take the form of exile, from social groups and familiar surroundings, and a journey begins. While these poems describe a particular experience, there are universal elements within all of them. How we cope with pain, love, death, uprooting, and the lessons we learn also contain common themes. The City Beyond the Ninth Wave: Poems for Healing and the Sometimes Lonely

The beauty of works like this is the varied interpretation allowed the reader. I read of memories, both beautiful and painful, ultimately followed by a growth and triumph, seasoned with unrealized strength. There is a beauty in that.