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Stained Glass

Stained Glass

Kurowska, Joanna

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ISBN10: 1632132222
ISBN13: 9781632132222
Publisher: Histria Christian
Published: Mar 1 2016
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Praise for Stained Glass

Joanna Kurowska's new book (her seventh) of Stained Glass offers readers insightful reflections about how one's identity changes with a change in language. A bi-lingual poet and scholar, Kurowska's poems open her family album for us to see a grandfather with cheeks/full of prickly needles, an aunt who moved/into the neighborhood of bees and flowers, and a fond parish priest who prays in his sleep. She was cautioned Remember your roots when she came to America, and these poems are full of that wisdom as well as some troubling paradoxes that powerfully energize this collection, like this one-Look: you are no longer walking down the road/now the road runs through you. That road for Kurowska has been marked with disappointments (being classified in File #3 as an alien) as well as immense triumphs. Kurowska's title points to both the secular and sacred worlds she enters as she travels on the roads running through her. But what makes this a stand-out collection is Kurowska's imagery in her second, adopted language-it is fresh, pulsating, provocative, and at times beautifully sacramental.

Philip C. Kolin

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