Tongues of Men and Angels - Couverture souple

Roulier Sawyer, Joy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 069266128X ISBN 13 : 9780692661284

Editeur : White Violet Press, 2016

Synopsis

Tongues of Men and Angels will give you a poetic kiss that plays for keeps. In poems that blend the verbal alacrity and formal complexity of Gerard Manley Hopkins with the ironic verve and cultural awareness of Allen Ginsberg, Joy Roulier Sawyer pursues a path of love and of longing, “heaven’s taste trembling on honeyed tongues,” but with this “Note to self: give up enlightenment for Lent.” In feast and in fast, this fine collection will melt in the mouth. Taste and see.
—Paul J. Willis, former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, author of Say This Prayer into the Past

Joy Roulier Sawyer gives us poems that are at once playful and wise, and in the sharp turns they make, full of revelations that transform language and experience into something new. The poem itself becomes a character in this collection as the poet addresses a range of subjects from the Underground Railroad to the contemporary challenges of being a woman writer. These poems take us places, too—Cape Cod, Dallas, Chicago, Hollywood—but it is the travel of the mind and heart that shapes their real journey. The union of fierce intelligence and gentle mastery of form Sawyer achieves makes these poems that, in her words, tenderly “tell the toughest truth.”
—Katherine Towler, author of The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship and co-editor with Ilya Kaminsky of A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith

What I love about Joy Roulier Sawyer’s poetry is that she takes us with her to deep places, but always holds a twinkle in her eye, play in her heart, and in each hand a feather plucked from the Wild Goose. From Cape Cod to coneheads, Kerouac to Carmen Miranda, this warm and wise poetic voice coaxes us ever forward with its music. “Even these couplets got legs?” Indeed, they do.
—J Diego Frey, author of Umbrellas or Else and The Year the Eggs Cracked

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joy Roulier Sawyer is the former poetry editor and contributing editor for the Mars Hill Review, a national journal of arts and culture. She has published poetry in diverse publications such as Books & Culture, Christianity & Literature, LIGHT Quarterly, Lilliput Review, New York Quarterly, Ruminate, St. Petersburg Review, The Bacon Review, The Other Journal, The Volta, Torrid Literature Journal, and others. She was a recent runner-up in the annual St. Petersburg Review contest, as well as awarded a Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute associateship for her performance poetry. Joy received her MA from New York University, where she won the Herbert Rubin Award for Outstanding Creative Writing. She has taught at the University of Denver and Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: White Violet Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 069266128X
• ISBN 13: 9780692661284
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 50
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