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Book ReviewsThe Letters |
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Book: The Letters
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Publisher: Amazon
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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A Truly Noteworthy Story and Talent
Rating:
5 / 5
Reading "The Letters" is somewhat like standing in the middle of a tug of war between bitter weeping sorrow and sweet triumphant Love. The very balanced sense of Love as a haunting from the past and as a healing comfort for the present is exquisitely sublime. What makes this story a small masterpiece, I believe, is the pulse of regret and joy that throbs and glows through every meaningful detail. Pittershawn Palmer is a truly notable talent who has provided readers with a memorably brilliant work of short fiction.
Aberjhani
author of I MADE MY BOY OUT OF POETRY
and ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
No Ordinary Love
Rating:
5 / 5
Can our past somehow awaken the present, so that we can traverse a future that we can not now imagine, because of the death of a loved one? How can I or anyone comprehend the abyss that the soul must seek out in trying to find meaning, when love ones transcends the now into the realm of the everlasting eternity of the grave. Marie like others who have had to experience the pain and cacophony of voices, asking why and what has her union meant, with the man she so admired, for his devotion to what he consider as the Goddess(Good) of his entire being.
Heavenly, Godlike, supremely good and Devine, adjectives that now can only accurately describe a dream of the man she knew as Edward. In Pittershawn's box of letters Marie comes to understand how Edward's devotion and love can never die in her heart because of these letters. Marie has found out even in death Edward has found a way to envelop her into a spiritual embrace that strengthen her for the tomorrows. One has to ask, why and how did this wonderful writer Pittershawn Palmer come up with this ideal of these letters? Could they possible suggest past memories in a previous life with someone who meant so much to Pittershawn? Could she be tapping into the genetic collective to resolve the love story asking to be told? Mental transmutation or psychic science which even today is perplexing the psychologist speaks to the inquiring mind that endeavors to read these letters. Pittershawn left me wanting more of these letters, letters that Sade describes in her song as "No Ordinary Love." Reading these letters by Ms. Palmer, I wanted to become a psychoanalyst prying more words from her pen. I could then know more of the love, hurt and redemption of Marie's heart because Edward's soul has found a way to extend a love that has never died. In the end curiosity killed this black cat because of Pittershawn's box of letters. Letters this brother can not wait to open.
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A moving experience
Rating:
5 / 5
Pittershawn Palmer's elegant short story gives the reader a rare and wonderful journey with a true literary writer. Why have I not read her work before, I asked myself as I read her deeply moving tribute, her extraordinary expression of loss. Ms. Palmer uses the English language as if she owns it, and perhaps she does, for her words are at once paintings, shadows, sunlight and stinging arrows. Some of her phrases jumped out at me, and I still remember them. Writing at its best. Gwynne Forster
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