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Title: Passion's Evidence
Author: Barbara Fifield
Narrator: Norma Jean Strickland
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-25-15
Publisher: Ravenpheat Productions, LLC
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
"You are in my vein's pulse, the car's rhythm. Remove the blade so I may heal." From the lush and sensual to the quiet and serene, Passion's Evidence opens up a newly observed world for women and men to appreciate and experience in this collection of finely crafted poems. Composed over the last 25 years, Fifield's free verse offers the honesty and clarity of an attentive woman's observations of family, men, nature, and other aspects of life she has graced with her artist's eye. Her poetry ranges from the rich lines of "Picking Strawberries" - "blushing rubies of succulent flesh food for ancient deities", to the quietly dramatic opening of "Memories in the Orchard" - "Through knotted grass, dandelions gnarled roots, bracken, I enter the apple orchard." Fifield not only explores the panoramic emotions of love - sometimes satisfied, sometimes unrequited - and the connections of a woman's heart to her husband, her daughter, her mother-in-law, but she also conveys with skill and grace the sometimes complex emotions a woman may have in life: "You ask me to dance with the wind but knees are stiff from too much bending." In this impressive collection of poems, Fifield presents in full color the real, the actual, the tangible in life and then delicately laces it with hints of the shimmering potential still therein.
Members Reviews:
Writer Exposes Her Soul through Poetry
When asked to review a writer's published collection of poetry, I always have a brief moment of hesitation. To me, poetry is such an intensely personal genre in which one person's expressive and soul-wrenching output may be viewed as a jumbled mess to a reader who comes to the material with a different perspective or background. But then I remind myself that what I am expected to offer when I provide my opinion on a poet's work is my specific reaction. I am entitled to review the poetry of another writer because I am entitled to my own emotional response. And, in the case of Passion's Evidence by Barbara Fifield, I was left with an ache over words that conjured up my own thoughts on loss, love, and beauty.
This was not my first opportunity to read the work of Ms. Fifield, as I previously reviewed her novel Lucifer Rising. While I enjoyed her writing style in my initial exposure to her efforts, my appreciation for her talents was multiplied by Passion's Evidence. Fifield shares poetry that she has composed over the past twenty-five years, dividing the pieces into several powerful themes, and every page contains language that carries a message that is not content to lie flat and typed on a page. At the risk of sounding too cliché, this book really does come alive.
Perhaps the most difficult section to read was the one dedicated to her late husband, Roger. She writes to him while she sits by his side in the hospital, "I mourn for you,/my beloved/my husband/my angel/my soul mate," and as she prepares to bury his ashes by the ocean, "Your ashes lie at my bed's foot/I feel too crippled to disturb them." I could feel the grief emanating from every word that she selected to share her loss, but also understood the love and intimate connection that this man and woman shared.
As the mother of a young girl, I was affected by the poems Fifield wrote to her own daughter as she developed into adulthood.