Unlikely Conditions

Poetry. A collaborative text by two beloved poets, Cynthia Arrieu-King and the late Hillary Gravendyk, UNLIKELY CONDITIONS, was written as a way to embellish and perpetuate a friendship. Of her process working with Gravendyk, Arrieu-King says: We created this book through conversation about what remains important as we get older, jokes, inferences about existence, shared experience, separate experiences melded together, and a hilarious engagement with detail. We had a lot of fun together. This was the experience with all of Hillary's collaborators including her sister Megan Estrella, Maureen Alsop, Colleen Rosenfeld, Brenda Hillman, etc. I'm putting it out in the world because my friend and I had always talked about that as a given and also because I feel Hillary's family and other readers would want to see the beautiful work she did with me, and see a bit more of her intelligent heart and her love for life.