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Focused Light from a Distant Star
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639804740
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jan 6 2024
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-J. D. Solonche, author of 31 books of poetry and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize
The poet indulges useless subjective emotions is what they said of Pasternak, who yet laid bare the soul of half a nation, and so does Toni Ortner who exhumes a rich heritage of half a culture of women artists.
They are unknown but they lie in the rough basement,
For who else built the stubborn structure of language,
And rose against a silent melancholy and a dumb despair?
In an age seemingly content to express itself with emotions, here are relics of the numinous beams and sinews focused from a different star; addressing, challenging, and recharging forgotten or marginalized batteries for the life of our times. This is the reportage of the soul for what we cannot express will oppress us.
-Phil Innes, publisher of Vermont Views Magazine
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