Description
In Aging in Place, Lynn Aprill channels the Baby Boomers—the sixty-year-olds from the Sixties facing retirement and missing friends, while providing support to their aging parents. Sometimes humorous and irreverent, sometimes poignant, Aging in Place showcases a variety of poetic forms and styles as the poems grapple with “all the things we didn’t know” about older adulting—menopause, memory loss, and unwinnable arguments with insurance companies. But there is joy to be found as well and the opportunity to treasure “every good day.”
Reviews:
“Lynn Aprill’s lively book of poems takes on the upheaval of aging and caregiving with wit and grace. The poems celebrate and honor a kaleidoscope of experience—from the small comforts to the profound griefs.” —Tori Grant Welhouse, author of Vaginas Need Air
“Lynn Aprill proves it is possible to look at loss of life and sex drive and memory with-out losing our perspective and our sense of humor, and even without a GPS, she helps us navigate this strange phase of life where we can often feel overwhelmed.” —Wendy Winn, poetry editor at The Vincent Brothers Review
“Lynn Aprill’s new chapbook is nothing short of radiantly honest. Her talent for ex-pressing the ambivalence of growing older, and seeing parents and loved ones reckon with the end of life, is hard to resist, and who would want to? Understatement and wit are essential to this collection.” —Kathryn Pratt Russell, author of Raven Hotel
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