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reading for a winter deep and long

Mo Duffy Cobb Leave a Comment

Dear Cargo Literary Readers,

As we move through the passage of winter, many of us shift towards adventure, pivot to new climates, and make use of our seasoned backpacks. For a long time, that was me.

Middle age, however, has brought with it new gifts. One of them has been the stability of a home, children, and work that keeps me close to my community. I connect now to a thriving writers’ guild, conduct the creative projects I dreamt up in summer, and inhale the the magic of a long and flourishing winter book list. In this way, I look forward to reading the wild and gregarious submissions that come in to Cargo each month.

As usual in our issues, themes emerge. For this episode, we look at light and dark, or two sides of ourselves. The brightness of summer still warm in our hearts, we strap on the snowshoes and head into the storm.

In nonfiction, we continue to bring you strong female leads. In The Womb of the World, Amanda Summer asks, “Where are women supposed to go to become goddesses?” and Thatcher Carter beats travel tension in Checkpoint. In Bleak Midwinter, Dustin Solberg makes a winter adventure worthwhile.

Kimberly White sees mountain eyes the poetry of Mountain Pages, Marjory Woodfield wanders through frankincense and myrrh in Thumairi Street, and Sandra Kolankiewicz combs through the secrets of the mantle in, For Sale.

In art, we offer you a rich visual context.  In photography, Dreaming of a New Earth by Fabrice Poussin brings new perspectives and in Hungry Eyes by Sherri Harvey, we continue the search for connectivity. Playfulness and ‘the beauty of the world’ dominate the art of Michael Paul in Illustrations, and Willy Vecchiato offers us the opposite —a landscape of shadows in Dark Mirrors. 

Finally, in Review, we have Patricia Beiger musing over her two readings of The Truce, by Mario Benedetti and with a new translation by Harry Morales.

When i had lunch with my dear friend and nonfiction editor Kathy Large yesterday, she reminded me of Margaret Atwood’s poem, “The Moment”. It speaks to the moment when the ground shakes, dormancy awakes, and we must find ourselves anew.

Enjoy.

-Mo

 

The Moment by Margaret Atwood
The Moment by Margaret Atwood

 

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About Mo Duffy Cobb

Mo Duffy Cobb is a freelance travel and culture writer who has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction. She has been published in The Rumpus, Literary Mama, Damselfly Press, and Understorey Magazine, among others. She is the Founder and Editor of Cargo Literary, and you can find her own travel memoir here: Unpacked: from PEI to Palawan (Pottersfield Press, 2017). Check out the book trailer on Youtube: Unpacked. Mo lives in the sunshine of the Atlantic with her own cargo: a husband and three blond beauties, aged eleven, four, & one. | moduffycobb.com.

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