Throughline

Cora McCann Liderbach's expansive chapbook Throughline allows poetry to "knit together the fractured fault lines" of our lives with intriguing imagery, playful rhythms, wit and earned wisdoms. Poems touch on growing up with warring parents; developing essential tremor (ET) at age 15; controlling it with deep brain stimulation surgery (DBS) nearly 60 years later; the effects of alcohol abuse on family life; the Covid-19 pandemic; and the life-changing discovery of compassion and gratitude. Whether focusing on the weather in Cleveland, Ohio, or the mythical Lake Erie Monster, her poetry is by turns realistic and dreamlike, including free verse, prose poems, sonnets, pantoums and abecedarians.