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The Other Side
The Other Side poetry book was written to focus on the caregiver’s experience. The simple truth is, no one understands the workload, emotions, frustration, and loss of their own interests, a support individual goes through, while they compassionately tend to a loved one. Our bodies are the vehicles for all of life’s experiences to be parked, and this holding on to emotions can eventually stall and breakdown the system. Austin’s poems are her encouragement for the reader to touch into some of the deep feelings that are put aside, while the business of caring goes forward.
“My hope is these poems resonate with you, dear reader, so you feel understood and heard, even when your voice won’t utter a sound. We are forever united in our struggles because we give of ourselves, while we deeply love. Please know you are not standing alone.”
Lynne Carol Austin
Reviews
In The Other Side, Lynne Carol Austin offers readers the opportunity to explore the grief, fear, rage and hope that accompany one of life’s toughest passages. In these poems, “cancer is the puppeteer,” and Austin provides works that show the compassion, anger, despair and deep spiritual depths she experiences as the journey unfolds. Readers will be grateful for clear-eyed guidance shown in honest, difficult, and even hopeful moments the writer shares. This is a brave, generous book in which we see the human condition reflected through the lens of a gifted poet.
—Susan Martell Huebner, poet, author, Reality Changes With the Willy Nilly Wind, Gathering Sticks for the Fire, She Thought the Door Was Locked
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Lynne Carol Austin’s poetry is deeply introspective and unflinchingly honest. She writes with great sensitivity of her conflicted feelings of sorrow, anger, doubt, and love as wife and caregiver of someone dependent on her presence and support. The opening poem asks the question at the very heart of the type of passage all of us experience, for one reason or another, during our lives:
How do we get to the other side
what will it look like
when we get there, and
will we both survive
—Myles Hopper, author of My Father’s Shadow
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Reading Lynne Carol Austin’s The Other Side, we enter the world of cancer. Written as Austin’s husband is first diagnosed, we witness lives turned upside down. We watch as roles fluctuate from wife to caregiver with no regard to when or how. Pain, fatigue, anger, tiny pieces of joy become up close and real. She asks us “Is happiness always a guarded pursuit?” And yet in the last lines of the last poem we are reminded “Understand a little light can seep under a door”.
The Other Side poems do open the door, find the light, and teach us to be more than just observers…even if only to share the journey.
—Maryann Hurtt, author of Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices, River, and is a retired hospice RN.
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Shipping costs: $5 for one book, $10 for 2-5 books. Please select appropriate rate during checkout. If you are wanting to order more than 5 books please inquire via the contact page for updated shipping rates.
The Other Side poetry book was written to focus on the caregiver’s experience. The simple truth is, no one understands the workload, emotions, frustration, and loss of their own interests, a support individual goes through, while they compassionately tend to a loved one. Our bodies are the vehicles for all of life’s experiences to be parked, and this holding on to emotions can eventually stall and breakdown the system. Austin’s poems are her encouragement for the reader to touch into some of the deep feelings that are put aside, while the business of caring goes forward.
“My hope is these poems resonate with you, dear reader, so you feel understood and heard, even when your voice won’t utter a sound. We are forever united in our struggles because we give of ourselves, while we deeply love. Please know you are not standing alone.”
Lynne Carol Austin
Reviews
In The Other Side, Lynne Carol Austin offers readers the opportunity to explore the grief, fear, rage and hope that accompany one of life’s toughest passages. In these poems, “cancer is the puppeteer,” and Austin provides works that show the compassion, anger, despair and deep spiritual depths she experiences as the journey unfolds. Readers will be grateful for clear-eyed guidance shown in honest, difficult, and even hopeful moments the writer shares. This is a brave, generous book in which we see the human condition reflected through the lens of a gifted poet.
—Susan Martell Huebner, poet, author, Reality Changes With the Willy Nilly Wind, Gathering Sticks for the Fire, She Thought the Door Was Locked
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Lynne Carol Austin’s poetry is deeply introspective and unflinchingly honest. She writes with great sensitivity of her conflicted feelings of sorrow, anger, doubt, and love as wife and caregiver of someone dependent on her presence and support. The opening poem asks the question at the very heart of the type of passage all of us experience, for one reason or another, during our lives:
How do we get to the other side
what will it look like
when we get there, and
will we both survive
—Myles Hopper, author of My Father’s Shadow
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Reading Lynne Carol Austin’s The Other Side, we enter the world of cancer. Written as Austin’s husband is first diagnosed, we witness lives turned upside down. We watch as roles fluctuate from wife to caregiver with no regard to when or how. Pain, fatigue, anger, tiny pieces of joy become up close and real. She asks us “Is happiness always a guarded pursuit?” And yet in the last lines of the last poem we are reminded “Understand a little light can seep under a door”.
The Other Side poems do open the door, find the light, and teach us to be more than just observers…even if only to share the journey.
—Maryann Hurtt, author of Once Upon a Tar Creek: Mining for Voices, River, and is a retired hospice RN.
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Shipping costs: $5 for one book, $10 for 2-5 books. Please select appropriate rate during checkout. If you are wanting to order more than 5 books please inquire via the contact page for updated shipping rates.