When East Was North

Penner, Andrea Millenson

ISBN 10: 0988227967 / ISBN 13: 9780988227965

Edité par Mercury HeartLink, 2012

N° de réf. du vendeur 0988227967-3-29984668

Synopsis :

This collection of very personal but accessible poems explores the substance of recent and distant memory against the flow of ever-rapid change that we all have experienced since the mid-20th century. In several poems, Andrea Penner explores contrasting relationships: the brief fragility of some, the enduring power of others. Readers will be drawn into familiar, intimate scenes evoked by the poet’s delicate balance of words and emotions: a revisiting of childhood memories and neighborhoods, a parent’s terminal illness, a woman’s disintegrating marriage, and a lover’s passions. When East Was North also introduces the reader to a wider world and cast of characters: a San Quentin prisoner, a gold miner in South Africa, and women victims of war. In a voice that ranges from humor to pathos, the poet puts word and meaning to those personal and universal vicissitudes of life that make our existence so challenging and exciting.

À propos de l'auteur: Andrea (Andi) Millenson Penner sees the world through the places where she has lived – from Connecticut to Southern California, and Northern Arizona to Central and Northwest New Mexico. She knows those places through the people she has met and the relationships she has formed, and left behind. Andi’s educational journey led her to many of the locations featured in her poetry. After high school, Andi left her childhood home in Orange County to pursue her B. A. in Developmental Psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara. Following a domestic era, she continued with graduate school, earning an M.A. in English at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. Relocating to Albuquerque, she engaged in a multi-year juggling act while completing doctoral study in Native American Literature and earning the PhD in English at the University of New Mexico. She has taught composition, literature, and technical writing at her graduate alma maters and at San Juan College. She has also worked in private industry and traveled abroad. She writes and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a favorite place.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : When East Was North
Éditeur : Mercury HeartLink
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good