Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Language of Stone: Poems

The Language of Stone: Poems

Dobbie, Joan
Lehew, Laura

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0999833464
ISBN13: 9780999833469
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Oct 15 2019
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Joan Dobbie began writing her stone poems in 1997 when the late Irish poet, Noelle Vial, conducting a Eugene Oregon poetry workshop, gave Stone/Isolation(verbally: stone-slash-isolation) as a writing prompt. This triggered something like a geyser of stone poems that kept leaping out of Joan's brain into her computer where they rumbled and roiled for a couple of decades to finally burst out through some long brewing fault in her psyche into this book. These myth-like poems hone in on various facets of life in a troubled relationship through the sharp, unbending, spotlight of stone. Some of the poems are actually funny, some utterly serious. Some have a kind of twisted fairytale quality. All strike deep. In their wake, a reader might never see either stone or isolation or in fact much of anything else in quite the same way.

Also in

General Poetry

View All