One Crimson Thread

For twenty years,celebrated poet Micheal O'Siadhail's beloved wife, Bríd, suffered from Parkinson's disease. O'Siadhail's verses explore the ordinary triumph of human fidelity and sound the depths of parting through a 150-sonnet sequence in which love faces wasting illness and the specter of death. There is tenderness, intensity,and gratitudeâwhich will resonate with allwho know both love and loss.

O'Siadhail is skilled at his craft. And though some of the sonnets stand out more than others, the total effect is a compelling, rhythmic ritual of commemoration and grief. His book is a valuable and unusual addition to the literature of illness, caregiving, death, and grieving, inviting believers and unbelievers alike to remember that though we must 'endure our going hence, ' graces lie along that hard way like alpine flowers that weather the hardest wind.--Marilyn McEntyre "Christian Scholar's Review", One Crimson Thread is a compelling, intimate, and memorable body of heartfelt poetry.-- "The Poetry Shelf, Midwest Book Review", One Crimson Thread, a beautiful, tender and heartbreaking series of poems that chronicle the last two years of Bríd's life, her death and his grief.--Andrea Smith "Sunday Independent", , I read slowly, carefully, and with deep emotion One Crimson Thread. It's a beautiful, beautiful but terribly sad poem of love.--Jean Vanier

Micheal OSiadhail is an internationally acclaimed poet whose whose works include The Five Quintets and One Crimson Thread. He is Distinguished Poet in Residence at Union Theological Seminary.