typing with e. e. cummings New Release Humor and irony are also

Humor and irony are also part of the poet's toolbox

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at times reminiscent of Lorca

while offering us salve and salvation for all of the "red absences

’ carries readers aloft to reflective

typing with e. e. cummings New Release Humor and irony are alsoLike e. e. cummings, Desrosiers writes about love and death. There is such sadness in her poetry, but beauty in her memories. She is carrying on in this life without her mother, father, and many others she has lost, yet she reflects on her love for her husband and stays in the now. Reading Desrosiers poetry is like reading small odes. We all are eavesdropping on words that are delicate and private such as: You can put your sorrows down now Mother It