FORGED BY JOY - Tecno-Libro

Recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, ?Laura Mazza-Dixon?s Forged by Joy is a test of light against time, from innocence to loss, a spiritual autobiography seen first through a girl?s eyes that behold wonder in everything, including stones ? ?sea-polished ovals, green trapezoids laced with gold? ? and forged through a life of art and love and loss, arriving at the question, ?Can joy weigh more than grief?? ?These are graceful, softly cadenced poems of belief carried against the final darkness we all face.? ?Doug Anderson, poet and author of Blues for Unemployed Secret PoliceOf the book, Forged by Joy poet Tryfon Tolides, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, and author of An Almost Pure Empty Walking, writes ?Through elegies, litanies, gardening poems, and poems about other artists and musicians, Laura Mazza-Dixon weaves a community extending far? Her yarns are her memories, her knowledge, her living and her dead. She draws her own design of what a family tree might look like. In addition to relatives, her tree contains friends and people she?s never met, such as the comp