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Oasis: Poems & Paintings

Oasis: Poems & Paintings

Williams-Chassot, Laura

Paperback

General ArtGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0982025599
ISBN13: 9780982025598
Publisher: Trans Media Publishing Group
Published: Feb 22 2017
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Oasis is a refuge of comfort and safety, a plunge into beauty, a respite from toil. It can offer a pause for reflection on the journey; perhaps a time for Memories of Ice cream on a hot sidewalk where childhood skipped... This precious resource, Laura Williams-Chassot reveals is within. It is not kind, not necessarily gentle, with Memories of Healing pain that can't be fixed; but is nurturing. It is not always accessible. But it is there-or here. Even when the worst confronts us, our individual paths can lead us to an oasis of sustaining energy and insight.
This volume of poetry forms a loosely sketched narrative, each work a way station on an autobiographical pilgrimage. Each element stands alone with its particular subject matter, structure, and vocabulary--not a series but a metaphorical possibility. The poet is a painter. The ­painting is a poem.
But essentially Laura is the elusive trickster who engages simple ­observation as a mirror of paradoxical truths. A poet who enlists the reader as an ally while -­reserving facets and riddles of understanding to be ­revealed in future encounters.

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