Alice Parker Meador

Something to be Said Alice Parker Meador

Alice Meador's first book of poems transports the reader to the heights and depths of an 80 year-old's life of passion, joy, loss, and musings. Her poems span the spectrum of form and style, but throughout there is one quality that ties them all together - Beauty. Like a skilled artist stringing luminous pearls to create an elegant necklace, Alice is a weaver of words. She conveys even sadness and pain deftly and sensitively and is intrepid in her digging, not sparing herself or us by shying away from the mirror. Alice's poems bring us into the worlds of dementia, autism, and racial divide. With others she leads us through young and mature love and loss, mothering, nature, and life by the sea. Interlaced throughout the book are painterly photographs by her son, Andrew Grauman Kramp who lives in Berlin, which add an ethereal quality to the beauty and rhythm of the poetry. Alice Meador writes of her passion for words, their tangibility and essences, when she states in "Until It Comes" Life is a poem, isn't it? I want to taste luscious words like Meadow and rumor and salient, A warm and salty gargle to the mouth. Touch them with my eyes and fling them Out upon the world. And fling them out she does in this powerful little book of poems. Something to be Said, indeed!