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Organelle
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781954353701
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jun 29 2021
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
-Pauletta Hansel, Cincinnati Poet Laureate Emeritus
Donelle Dreese's poems are delicate and courageous, teaching us about wisdom and compassion. Part I recreates the portrait of Rachel Carson and leads us into a world rife with subtle knowledge about plants, animals, and nature. Dreese's metaphors connect the unexpected and the transcendent. Her work provides models of ecofeminism and fights to preserve the environment. Her poems treasure moments of grace, inviting us to share ceremonies and rituals, kindness and patience. As the lines in one of her poems invite, Bring your color. All of it. Let every green grave / be a grand piano with moss on its keys. After / a long life, you might hear songs, long to play.
-Lucia Cherciu, Train Ride to Bucharest
Throughout Organelle, Donelle Dreese makes vivid the contributions of women to science with a lyrical precision befitting their love of the discipline while connecting their work to a vast natural spirituality. In Rachel Carson at Woods Hole . . . Dreese writes, She took long shoreline walks / tide-pooling, examining / her own approachable soul / swirling its finger in a tunnel / of deep time. Laced throughout the collection is environmental concern and call to action-Do something . . . Your own emerald heart is on fire. Yet the whole book insists on hope, encouraging us to grow hardwood brave. Dreese takes us on the very return to lyric forests which she explores: deep, nimble, nourishing, wild, a restful yet invigorating canopy of starfish and strawberry, tidal pool and snow.
-Taunja Thomson, The Profusion
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