Birth, Death & InBetween

About the Book

Birth, Death & InBetween came to Ms Corwin as a title when friends began to die.  Her generation was ‘starting to go’.     
     “A collection comes about at a turning point; one is grieved, one wonders at the disappearance, the invisibility, the untimeliness, what was before, what may come after.  No longer a matter of death and dying, but of birth, death and the in between.  The speechlessness turns into a need to speak.
     You don’t put together a collection of poetry overnight.  There is no arbitrary subject.  There are threads.  A collection is a matter of emphasis, accentuation and priority.  One’s generation begins to go; the whole of the sidewalk full of people coming at you will be gone in a hundred years, not a person coming at you left.  If that is not a source of wonderment, what is?”
     Birth, Death & InBetween is a collection of 300 some odd poems written over a period of 40 years observing, examining, questioning, accepting the plain facts and the elusive nuances.   

About the Author

Arlene Corwin is a professional jazz singer/pianist, yoga practitioner of some 40 years, and author of 11 previous books, each circling round some singular aspect of life. A graduate of the High School of Music & Art and Hofstra University, she lives, performs and teaches in Sweden.