Full Speed. Full Stop.
Einstein called it "relativity;" James Joyce called it an "epiphany;" Brenda Barrie calls it "full stop" — that moment when everything in your life seems to stop just long enough for you to realize something about life that you've never noticed before.Editorial Review
With startling imagery, lyrical language, and universal insight into the human condition, Barrie presents us with poems that slow down our lives (or, as Einstein would say, "speed them up") to the point where suddenly everything comes to a "full stop." And in that moment of "full stop," that moment that James Joyce called an "epiphany," we are confronted with a realization about our own lives, humanity, or life in general that takes us light years beyond our previous understanding. It isn't easy to tell others about these moments of "full stop," since most people have to experience "full stop" themselves to feel its impact. Barrie's poems, however, with their poignant language, distinctive imagery, and various voices, shares these moments of "full stop" with us in so vividly and dramatically that we are allowed to experience the narrator's epiphany and see, in an unequivocal way, how that epiphany, that "full stop" is also a part of our lives as fellow humans. Beautifully written and with memorable imagery, Barrie's poems will take you "full speed" until you come to the "full stop." © 2004 Sherri Szeman & RockWay Press®
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