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Iron into Flower
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ISBN13: 9798888380031
Publisher: Finishing Line Pr
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Finishing Line Pr
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You must change your life, / say the rabbis of old begins a poem from Iron into Flower, Yvette Neisser's second collection. Like those rabbis, Neisser's deceptively simple poems pose age-old questions about memory, identity, love, faith, and morality. And when calamity strikes-a death, an auto accident, a divorce-the poems' speaker, also named Yvette Neisser, does indeed change her life, reclaiming her body, her identity, even her name. Timeless rituals-the sun's arc, the passing of the seasons, the quiet pleasures of making tea and flipping tortillas-help reassure even the most troubled souls who haunt these poems. Neisser writes, Bless us all, the whole imperfect lot of us. And she means it: these are poems of healing and grace.
-Katherine E. Young, author of Woman Drinking Absinthe, Poet Laureate Emerita, Arlington, VA
Iron into Flower doesn't pull any punches as we readers are drawn into a landscape of loss: Auschwitz, Gaza, the body, first loves, and even depression's loss of color, as 'orange and red cascade/ and crumble into brown, / then earth, / then bareness.' In these moving and rhythmic texts where Neisser's children's faces are 'all that matter, ' the poet finds beauty and strength in her yearning to 'learn the shape of faith.'-Nancy Naomi Carlson, Author of An Infusion of Violets
I relished this dual-journey of a book, where mother traverses the Deep South in the mid-sixties on her way to Mexico. But also landscapes of memory-a hike with father, where the years have etched rings around my life-in poem after poem the arresting passage of time; or a kind of lifespan within a single poem, from the pull of oars up the quiet river...to the closing of eyelids. But we also encounter work that doesn't flinch in the face of harrowing histories-pieces that shine a mirror inside [our]selves / examine [our] flaws. In short, the stuff of art-this gorgeous arc that doesn't shy from digging deep.-Francisco Aragón, author of After Rubén, Director of Letras Latinas
Iron into Flower doesn't pull any punches as we readers are drawn into a landscape of loss: Auschwitz, Gaza, the body, first loves, and even depression's loss of color, as 'orange and red cascade/ and crumble into brown, / then earth, / then bareness.' In these moving and rhythmic texts where Neisser's children's faces are 'all that matter, ' the poet finds beauty and strength in her yearning to 'learn the shape of faith.'-Nancy Naomi Carlson, Author of An Infusion of Violets
I relished this dual-journey of a book, where mother traverses the Deep South in the mid-sixties on her way to Mexico. But also landscapes of memory-a hike with father, where the years have etched rings around my life-in poem after poem the arresting passage of time; or a kind of lifespan within a single poem, from the pull of oars up the quiet river...to the closing of eyelids. But we also encounter work that doesn't flinch in the face of harrowing histories-pieces that shine a mirror inside [our]selves / examine [our] flaws. In short, the stuff of art-this gorgeous arc that doesn't shy from digging deep.-Francisco Aragón, author of After Rubén, Director of Letras Latinas
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