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Ash and Embers

Ash and Embers

Zoller, James A.

Paperback

Series: Poiema Poetry, Book 27

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1532636105
ISBN13: 9781532636103
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: Mar 15 2018
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Ash & Embers embodies the inherent messiness of life's journey, sorting detritus from treasures, identifying and naming memory, finding categories that reflect life's winding pathways and its treacherous footing. Taking his various roles--son, brother, husband, father, grandfather, neighbor, teacher, citizen, believer, writer, and reader--as narrative stances, Zoller considers the details of life and its larger forces. Thematically complex, Ash & Embers accepts that the journey is translated through the often difficult tool of language; thus, it embraces the tension that language is inadequate, alien, and, paradoxically, a tool for recognition and understanding. In Zoller's poems how we speak about life--as physical passage, as spiritual pilgrimage, as imagined patterns, as emotional canvas, as interwoven narrative strands, and as social construct--all these voices meet in one conversation. Between Photographs that begins the book and Hard Copy that brings it to a close we find everything from first impressions to Second Knowings, from notes on the poems of Mao and Seamus Heaney to prayers to the God of time, eternity, and love.

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