Life’s Glorious Song

About the Book

“Kathleen Galvin Grimaldi's new volume of poetry asks us to ‘Trust in the nothingness, but remain seated at life's table.’ This is a fitting invitation to a collection that asks the big questions and resolves time and again into moments of clarity, acceptance, comfort and inspiration. Every poem is a gem, written by a poet at the top of her game—a tried and true woman who trusts in the ‘music of a deeper dream’ to inform these meditations on love, loss, time passing and the temple of the natural world. Master of form, master at life, this is a poet at home with herself, attuned to the precision and beauty of language, with lots to say about how to be human in our lovely and troubled world.” —Mary Olmsted Greene, founder and director, Upper Delaware Writers Collective, author of Permission and Women Outside: A Conversation about Nature, Art & Spirit

About the Author

Kathleen Galvin Grimaldi was born and raised in New England, migrated to NYC and the Bronx during college years, married and raised a family on Long Island, which was home for over thirty years. Retirement from a long career in high school and college teaching, as well as administration, brought her to the mountains of Pennsylvania in 2005. Before long, she was involved with poetry groups in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as well as her new home state. Since her husband Phil's passing in 2011, she divides her time between a cabin in northwestern Connecticut and her home in Pennsylvania. Her son once commented, "You leave the woods to go to the woods. I don't get it." And she wouldn't have it any other way. Unless, of course, it's to climb into her camper and hit the open road! Her first book of poetry, "Like Smoke Rising, Like Wind," was published in 2011.