Lifting Child From the Ground, Turning Around Quitab Editions The ghazals in Nūr Mélange

The ghazals in Nūr Mélange explore the complexities of the human condition and offer profound insights for the reader

she really means it and when Bach speaks back

the maybes and might‑bes of life transformed into what simply (and complicatedly) is

Author of If the House

precision and ardor

Lifting Child From the Ground, Turning Around Quitab Editions The ghazals in Nūr MélangeVirginia Bells Lifting Child from the Ground, Turning Around is a complex look at childhood (our own and those of our children), parenting, old age, our beloved dead, and how we inhabit the faces of everyone who has come before us. Bell captures in poetry the movement of filmslow motion plates, fast forwards, zoom shots, expansive pans, and flashbacks. She draws on such tricks to enhance memory or question it entirely. This poet excels at the