Life in No Ordinary Time
Life in No Ordinary Time by Laurel Feigenbaum, published by Poetry Box on September 13, 2024, is a collection of poems that captures the poet’s reflections on contemporary issues while navigating her own stable personal life at the age of ninety-six. This edition, comprising 96 pages, presents her observations on a range of topics including politics, technology, climate change, and family dynamics, all conveyed through her distinctive wit and poetic voice.
Readers will find that Feigenbaum’s work addresses the complexities of modern life, from the impacts of war and displacement to the challenges posed by advancing technology and societal changes. The poems serve as a commentary on the current zeitgeist, blending humor with insightful meditations on aging and the world around her. Life in No Ordinary Time offers a thoughtful exploration of these themes, inviting readers to engage with the nuances of life through the lens of a seasoned poet.
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While the ninety-six-year-old poet’s personal life and that of her family remains stable, the world suffers increasing turmoil-be it war, displacement, or threats to our democracy. Laurel Feigenbaum’s poems of time and place reflect her observations, thoughts, feelings, and reactions to the crosscurrents of events over the recent decade. Politics, advancing technology, climate change, a lingering virus, family and aging are all topics she tackles in Life in No Ordinary Time with her trademark wit and poetic voice.
“Wildfires and calving glaciers, war mongers, cryptocurrency, woke culture, unchecked technocracy, a demented demagogue, the surveillance state, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer-the dreary earmarks of our zeitgeist seem endless. Laurel Feigenbaum takes them on with the perspicacity of her 96 years on earth and her trademark wit, dry as a three-olive martini. Her Life in No Ordinary Time is a savvy, bracing, and thankfully entertaining antidote to our time, our place.”
-Thomas Centolella, author of Almost Human
“What a fullness! Wry twists of humor add just the right touch to these meditations of a sharp, connected, sophisticated, knowledgeable, intrigued and intriguing little-old-lady, and detail a life worth living in its accumulated wisdoms and happinesses.”
-Doreen Stock, author of Bye Bye Blackbird
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