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Solemnity Rites is a prayer of praise for the known and the mythic. Clark invites us to find our place in the world, to know our size and value. In these sure-footed and elegant poems, she points to a life force that brings us into this very moment, our ancient histories embedded in every cell.
Featuring three pieces of my original art, this chapbook...is a visceral, myth-infused poetry collection that weaves the themes of womanhood, ritual, ancestry, and the struggle for finding significance in this insignificant world. Solemnity Rites reclaims poetry as a site of sacred remembering and communal witnessing. It is not just a book but a rite in itself.
--Munmun "Sam" Samanta, Author of Yellow Chrysanthemum
With pitch-perfect lyricism, Clark plucks resonant notes from the rituals of people living in the earliest of civilizations and connects them with the practices of individuals residing in the present time. Readers travel “through time’s rooms” to explore the “pulse and thrum” of such universal experiences as joy, grief, and resilience guided by a poet who shares the stories of “people who shaped their bodies as songs to be sung” in harmony with the earth and “the endless above’s singing.” Written in two parts, Solemnity Rites is a sonata celebrating the sacredness of daily life.
--Teresa Burns Murphy, author of The Secret to Flying
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