Lynn Strongin is a poet and mystic -- decoding the unseen messages of this life. One can see oneself in the protagonists of Star Quilt: The Seventh Jump - photographer Maggie, upstart pioneer, pushing the envelope of her art, and Rachel, a retired postal carrier with back problems who could once walk the length and breadth of a small town with a heavy letter sack on her back. All Strongin's characters are, to one degree or another, visionaries and outsiders. Anne Ross, translator There is no other poet writing today who takes poetry so totally seriously and gets so absolutely involved with the writing-process as a means of psycho-spiritual rebirth. You enter Strongin's world and it's not just like traveling to another planet but into a whole new alternative universe. Hugh Fox, poet and critic This new book is a wonder. Glenna Luschei, poet About Lynn Strongin's short fiction collection, Albino Peacock: . . . a quite a wonderful achievement. I read it from start to finish in one sitting. It's marvelous. It is music. It is poetry. Florence Miller, teacher, poet, co-editor of Poems by Shakespeare's Sisters (Shakespeare's Sisters Press)

Star Quilt: The Seventh Jump

Literature & Fiction

Strongin, Lynn

Literary

Plain View Press

Spectral Freedom sings melodies of loss in poetry, prose and criticism, as well as providing the reader the ultimate definition of freedom. She shows how the human condition can be cruelly imprisoned inside of a box nailed shut on all sides and yet the soul is capable of breaking through that prison and rise.

Spectral Freedom: Selected Poetry, Prose, and Criticism

History & Criticism

Casa de Snapdragon LLC

Lynn Strongin’s book, "That Glorious Child, Flynn," is a cornucopia of stories about children north, south and Irish. The heartbeat is a special needs child, Fynn. In one sense he is one of the new indigo children, exceptionally gifted as well as otherworldly: smaller than other children, a mystical boy born with milk white curls which mysteriously turn black as coal in early childhood. It is also a love story between two women, Fynn's mother, Megan, who is haunted by her strange child, and Erika, born in post world war II Europe.  Primarily, this book is an interwoven theme of how Fynn develops in his very specially imagined world. A poignant sub-theme is the friendship and love between the two women, Megan and Erika, expressed in a series of letters written to each other like bursts of star-fire. Open the pages of this book and fall into a tale that shows what happens to alter Fynn's fate and place in the world as he suffers through a violent event in his mother’s life; indeed, a tragedy that alters the course of all their lives forever.

That Glorious Child, Fynn

Short Stories & Anthologies

Lynn Strongin's book, "That Glorious Child, Flynn," is a cornucopia of stories about children north, south and Irish. The heartbeat is a special needs child, Fynn. In one sense he is one of the new indigo children, exceptionally gifted as well as otherworldly: smaller than other children, a mystical boy born with milk white curls which mysteriously turn black as coal in early childhood. It is also a love story between two women, Fynn's mother, Megan, who is haunted by her strange child, and Erika, born in post world war II Europe. Primarily, this book is an interwoven theme of how Fynn develops in his very specially imagined world. A poignant sub-theme is the friendship and love between the two women, Megan and Erika, expressed in a series of letters written to each other like bursts of star-fire. Open the pages of this book and fall into a tale that shows what happens to alter Fynn's fate and place in the world as he suffers through a violent event in his mother's life; indeed, a tragedy that alters the course of all their lives forever.

That Glorious Child, Fynn: Stories of Children, North, South & Irish Greater Than, Lesser Than

Casa de Snapdragon Publishing Company

In this collection of late works by Lynn Strongin, we find that perfect balance of salt and water spiced with symbolism and metaphor that poet Strongin does so well. Jewish Temple offerings included salt and Jewish people still dip their bread in salt on the Sabbath as a remembrance of those sacrifices.

Dark Salt: A Brush With Genius

Poetry

JB Stillwater Publishing

As one wheels touches down One wing brushing earth Holding breath The way bees, en masse, children in choir, cease a moment to sing. The sting of death Is bow withheld from the string? Is trembling.

Callie, Callie Calligraph

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

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