Cynthia Sharp

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Through Ingram Spark Distribution

A Howl for the environment! With soft echoes of Romantic Era philosophy, Ordinary Light approaches the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate crisis with grace, celebrating and normalizing the simplicity culturally required to move from excess consumerism to sustainability. Sharp takes readers through west coast natural settings, celebrating the movement from mindsets of consumption to the slower lives of previous generations as meaning is restored in Earth-friendly habits. Poems cascade as a chronicle of pandemic life, offering hope in uncertain times. From where we are born to what we embrace, Ordinary Light calls world citizens to reverse climate damage and live within our ecological means with emphasis on the healing commitment provides.

Cynthia Sharp holds an MFA in creative writing and an Honors BA in English literature. She is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, and the WIN Vancouver 2022 Poet Laureate. Her fiction, poetry, reviews and her creative nonfiction have been published and broadcast internationally in journals such as CV2, Prism, Quills, Pocket Lint and untethered. Cynthia was City of Richmond’s 2019 Writer in Residence. She recently completed her graduate studies in ecopoetry in Washington State, where she was on the editorial team of The Pitkin Review. She is the author of ‘The Light Bearers in the Sand Dollar Graviton’ and ‘Rainforest in Russet’.

Rainforest In Russet is Cynthia Sharp’s debut book of poetry. It is filled with brilliant imagery and tender moments etched against the mystic backdrop of nature and universal spirituality. The poems move with an intrinsic motion of their own as waves over a parched desert. There is a masterful eloquence at work here that relaxes the reader while at the same time urges the turning of the pages. Sharp has honed her creative senses into a fine feathered brush to paint the beautiful word pictures that come alive on the pages of this debut book. Sharp leaves us sated… yet wanting more.

~ Candice James, Poet Laureate Emerita,

New Westminster, BC CANADA