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Margaret Dubay Mikus, Ph.D. was a research scientist and teacher who healed from a wide array of serious health problems including multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart failure, and depression. Now a poet, singer, story-teller, and photographer, her powerful third book. "Thrown Again into the Frazzle Machine," is a welcome lifeboat that comforts and inspires. It is about being fully present and open to "ordinary" grace. Her insightful poems find meaning in what happens every day, letting help soak into us, and healing body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
Find her other books, "As Easy as Breathing: Reclaiming Power for Healing and Transformation" and "Letting Go and New Beginnings: A Mother's Poetic Journey" at www.FullBlooming.com. She also has a CD, "Full Blooming: Selections from a Poetic Journal."
Reviewed by Roy T. James for Readers' Favorite
Thrown Again into the Frazzle Machine by Margaret Dubay Mikus is a collection of poems reflecting a rough and unhappy patch in the author’s life, a period jolted by surgeries, with the collection intended to act as a life-boat in the journey through rough seas. The collection begins with a feeling of hopelessness, “One day when I am gone, the sky will be ordinary blue and the stars will shine true," and in between the author questions herself, “Put down the sword of self-destruction, stop stabbing myself...,” making forays into abstract notions in poems like Empress of Inertia and True Yoga, as well as reflecting on her state of abject weakness in many of the poems. As the author mentions in the beginning, the emotion she wanted to paint through these lines is one of the ‘lows’ of her life.
Thrown Again into the Frazzle Machine by Margaret Dubay Mikus truly reflects all that the author planned. A sense of loss permeates through the lines of this collection, which even a few poems reflecting happier thoughts is not able to counter. Some of the poems, like Pam or Burning a Candle at Both Ends, stand apart in their beauty of words. Some others, like Err on the Side of Caution, can lead one to deeper thoughts. In short, this collection can represent many facets of the emotional trauma that the author went through, if we are to consider that each and every poem is a subtle image of the author’s volcanic state of mind.
