When my future changed in an instant, I found the writing and reading poetry was the only way to light my way through the dark. False Horizons is my first collection of poems published by MoonPath Press.
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Readings
MoonPath Press Book Launch with Laura Urban Perry, Ann Dixon & Mary Salisbury
Sunday October 25th from 4 to 5:15 PM Pacific time on Zoom
DETAILS & RSVP link to come
Reviews
This little book holds a mother's unbounded grief in poems graceful and adamant, truthful and amazed. There is never closure after a child's death, Laura Urban Perry teaches us, but street lights and galaxies still shine, sometimes in waters stirred by a kayak paddle. Here is her beautifully rendered transition from one world to another–not beyond great pain but in concert with it.
— Kathleen Flenniken, author of Plume and Post Romantic
In False Horizons, Laura Urban Perry uses language as a telescope and a microscope to explain her journey – that “Even God dares not try” – through grief after her son dies. She juxtaposes words such as asymmetry, hypothesis, and machinery with stray, cradle, and “music and wrapping paper.” This is a hauntingly beautiful telling from “yesterday’s sweet ordinary” to the “kintsugi repair of/gold in the fracture.”
– Susan Landgraf, Author of Out of a Land of Alkali & Chromate
In Laura Urban Perry’s False Horizons, we are offered glimpses of how the unthinkable loss of a child is experienced by a parent. Concepts in physics become metaphors—how small particles are essential to the whole; the inextricable pull of gravity; the event horizon where the light of the lost object is eclipsed by a black hole.
— Risa Denenberg, author of Rain/Dweller
False Horizons is beautiful and heart-wrenching. After first glimpse, I was unable to stop reading straight through. I know I will revisit these poems again and again. "Now I live in crazy." These poems pitch me into that place too. How can the world/life be otherwise?
— Pamela Hobart Carter, author of Earth at Perihelion
Meet the Author
Laura Urban Perry is a poet, artist and award-winning graphic designer. Her poems have been published in the Amsterdam Quarterly, Consilience, BirdBrains – A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds, Poets on the Coast Anthologies and by the Northwest Museum of Art. She earned a BFA from University of Washington and taught web design and typography at Cornish Institute of the Arts.
Never far from woods or water growing up on the east & west coasts as well as London, England, when she moved to the Pacific Northwest to complete her studies she found home. Her fascination with art, science and language fueled in her career as a creative director and digital design pioneer. Now she devotes her time to poetry, art and photography. She lives in Seattle and sometimes in an off-grid cabin she built with her husband and kids on an island with no roads.