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(0)Paulann Petersen
Author
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Takes readers from a fur shop in Oregon to a shrine in India. Its pages contain a meditation on post-mortem photographs, an ode to the female earwig; an elegy for a grandmother's panache. Tapping deeply into memory, relying on poetry's ability to bring alive again what is coded into the blood, these poems ultimately form an arc of an aging woman's life. This collection tells the tales of what she has always realized, is ever learning, and can truly...
Author
Publisher
Lost Horse Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The heroine of The Voluptuary is not a king's sybaritic mistress, installed in the summer palace at Versailles. Her assignations are with the stars, with color and the air. ("Silver and Deep") The richness she is sifting with her mind has everything to do with the amplitude of the earth and the generosity of her interior self. ("Among the Yet Unfallen," "Gravity" and "Wax") The companions who mostly comprise the human presence in the book are Whitmans...