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Reviews for The Unworn Necklace

         The Deeper Quiet: this haiku collection is a composite of still-life images that substantiate the variegated motions and emotions in a life. As our life events change, so, too, do we change and exchange one reality for another, one name for another:
     the sound of the name
     I used to have
     soft falling snow
We are driven deeper into an awareness that may pain us as those transitional periods in life take over and define:
     . . . summer's end
     unable to go
     unable to stay
And sometimes it is something as insignificant as a necklace given to us by a loved one which signifies the weight of relentless regret:
     all day long
     I feel its weight
     the unworn necklace
The "bittersweet poignancy" (as Rosenstock's blurb says) of this collection is a telling awareness of what it means to be human.
     empty room
     a teacup holds
     the light
This is a fine collection from an accomplished poet.
                 -Marjorie Buettner, USA
                  Moonset, Spring/Summer 2008

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         Beary's manuscript for this book won First Prize in the Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition 2006 and the title was chosen as a Finalist for the 2008 Williams Carlos Williams Award by the Poetry Society of America. Her masterful haiku veer from savage humor:
     family picnic
     the new wife's rump
     bigger than mine
to wistful poignancy:
     all day long
     i feel its weight
     the unworn necklace
The book's production values match the content.
                 -George Swede
                  Frogpond Volume 31, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2008