Still Life with Poppies: Elegies - Couverture souple

Schultz, Leslie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0692627421 ISBN 13 : 9780692627426

Editeur : White Violet Press, 2016

Synopsis

Still Life with Poppies: Elegies by Leslie Schultz is what the name implies: bright joy against a sorrowful landscape. Death is everywhere in the world Schultz writes about—its relentlessness, its creativity, its suicidal call. Yet life in all of its various forms continues—some beautiful, some not. Cruelty may show its aftereffects for generations; a harsh set of comments may freeze creativity, at least for a time. While many may become cynical or depressed as a result, Schultz perseveres. Her poems about myth, in particular, are standouts. Schultz also understands in a profound way that the most emotional personal moments are mythical: emblemized by something as simple as plastic fruit in a blue bowl, or as iconic as a childhood home. For the depth of this understanding alone, you should read this book.
Kim Bridgford
Now, when so much contemporary poetry is mired in egocentricity, it is refreshing—and important—that in Leslie Schultz’s work “the ‘I’ dissolves to discover the ‘am.’” For her, “those luminous fields / surrounding hard facts, those currents / we move in” matter most. Schultz brings to her art the same mastery she has cultivated for decades as a student and teacher of yoga—the poise, concentration, strength, and balance required of yoga are translated into the words that give her poetry form. And one has to look twice to recall that the subtitle of this wonderful collection is Elegies. Her meditations confront the dark facts we all face, and the echoes of those facts strike the chords that give her work resonance, depth, and new shades of light.
Emilio DeGrazia
“Shiny, well-oiled, clean as a clock;” “dark and incandescent art;” “joy, indelible joy”—these lines from Leslie Schultz’s luminous new book beautifully characterize its true mode and impact. Whether evoking such personal subjects as a brother’s death, a divorce, the family romance; or the more public myths of Sleeping Beauty, Orpheus, or Pegasus, Schultz’s poems move from lament to laughter and light, finding the dazzling in the diurnal, the miraculous in the mundane. Formally nimble (witness the terza rima, sonnet, villanelle, and sestina), and passionately intelligent, these elegies and celebrations embrace heartbreak and hilarity, providing, in response to silence and solitude, solace and song. Still Life with Poppies: Elegies is a book of marvels, a marvel of a book.
Ronald Wallace

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leslie Schultz can’t remember a time when she wasn’t making poems. She studied creative writing at the UW-Madison in Madison, WI and at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA. She now lives in Northfield, Minnesota. Born contemplative and prone to leaps of faith, she began studying yoga as a teenager and has never stopped. In the 1990s, she fell in love with labyrinths, built one in her own garden, and walked it daily. In 1998, Schultz completed yoga teacher training at Kripalu Center in Lenox, MA and co-founded Heartwork Yoga Studio. In 2000, she began collaborating with artist and labyrinth maker Marilyn Larson to publish contemplative resources, including A Pocket Guide to Labyrinths; four printings later, it is still available at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Schultz’s photography has been purchased by hospitals, clinics, and private collections, and is featured on greeting cards. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared a variety of journals and anthologies, including Able Muse; Mezzo Cammin; Swamp Lily; Poetic Strokes Anthology; The Pacific Review; The Northern Review; The Madison Review; The Mid-American Poetry Review; The Midwest Quarterly; Stone Country; Sun Dog; The Wayfarer; and in a chapbook, Living Room (Midwestern Writers’ Publishing House). In 2013, one of her haiku was included in the payload of NASA’s MAVEN mission and is currently orbiting the red planet. She has published two middle-grade novels, featuring main characters who are homeschooled, with Do Life Right Press: The Howling Vowels (2011) and And Sometimes Y (2013). Schultz posts poems, essays, interviews, and photographs at www.winonamedia.net.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: White Violet Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0692627421
• ISBN 13: 9780692627426
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
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