River by the Glass: A Collection of Poems - Couverture souple

Rose, Monika

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1952314046 ISBN 13 : 9781952314049

Editeur : Manzanita Writers Press, 2022

Synopsis

River by the Glass is a collection of poems spanning two decades. The poems, says the photographer in River by the Glass, Ron Pickup, contain a whimsical wit and metaphysical humor. With biting humor and haunting verse, the poems reflect visual puzzles and conundrums of life, thus the viewing of the River, by Glass, through lenses - windows, screens, mirrors, and drinking vessels.

The poet recalls a time in her childhood when her barefoot ways met the barbarism in the human defacement of nature. She witnessed broken beer bottles with ugly shards of brown glass marring the lovely boulders, sand, and water purity of her favorite river haunt, the Kern River. She could never understand how people could deface the lovely places in our lives, the only kind of refuge from the asphalt and concrete desecration that levels our aspirations and deadens our nerves and senses.

Yet, in a strange kaleidoscopic way, those shards of glass that derived from sand and water, seemed to glitter and demand meaning for being what they were-products. They existed and they were there, clashing with the ideal of what she envisioned.

This collection is the poet's way of cleansing some of the impure places in the human heart and exploring the mysteries in human behavior and the natural world.

The poems give a glimpse into the quirks of humanity. Subjects include the leaving of loved ones and the world of dementia the meeting with a deer that connects the aspects of wild and tame and other topics such as parthenogenesis, gold panning, gardening, skipping stones, finding a harmonica in the river sand making coffee in the morning the dying of friends the haunting by a black dog when even holy water couldn't protect enough contemplating the breaking of a bull pine limb while a couple sleeps the celebration of a woman's cycle of birthing coming to an end with the flow of the "Tuolumne River" and poems that whimsically explore love through visions and images of the particular, spilling into the universal.

Take a sip of River by the Glass and quench your thirst. You may find yourself drinking harder than you thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Monika Rose, at home in the foothills of Calaveras County since the early 1980s, is founding director and editor of Manzanita Writers Press, a nonprofit literary publisher. She has been published in several anthologies and literary magazines. Her book of poems, River by the Glass, by GlenHill Publishing, and Bed Bumps, a children's book, will soon be joined by a novel, a collection of short fiction, a second children's book, and a new poetry collection. She has edited numerous Manzanita anthologies, including Out of the Fire, Wild Edges, Wine, Cheese & Chocolate, and Voices of Wisdom, volumes 1-3, plus 7 Manzanita prose & poetry anthologies, as well as novels, poetry, and nonfiction for authors. Monika has edited over 25 books for individual authors in our region. With a Masters Degree in English, she is Adjunct Associate Professor of English at San Joaquin Delta College and has taught high school English for 30 years, as well as workshops in writing for Delta College conferences, Gold Rush Writers Conferences, Tuolumne Writers Retreats, the Voices program, and Manzanita Writers Press workshops.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manzanita Writers Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1952314046
• ISBN 13: 9781952314049
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible