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Paperback. Zustand: Good. To read Agnes Vojta's A Coracle of Dreams is to sigh at each poem's end with satisfaction, awe, and poignancy that this is poetry. As she traces the decline and passing of her father, she turns to nature for solace and wisdom and brings her reader along with her, our guide who points out the most exquisite, revelatory details, making every closely observed stanza, line, and word palpable, a place where we can return to the ineffable. Here we flow with the spirit of the river and every place is the right place / every time is the right time, not because of the order humans impose on the world but because of the ecosystem whose physics she tenderly sings into being. - Aliki Barnstone, Poet Laureate of Missouri, 2016-2019, Author of Dwelling, Translator of Liana Sakelliou's Portrait Before DarkAgnes Vojta's poems in Coracle for Dreams are written with intelligent and richly crafted images. They draw us into a keen sense of Place and its relationship to those seeking permanence- the dream driven, who journey between homes forsaken and homes gained in new lands. The speakers learn through the naming of flora and fauna that . naming is knowing, and Familiarity breeds love of newfound landscapes. Yet nature is not reflexively centered, but rather teaches us how to grow / despite gaping wounds. Narrative and memory are not without poetic engagement with death and the end of what we thought would endure. Observing a landscape where woods were drowned to build a dam, We float between cedar ghosts, sojourners whose eyes engage the soft silence of the scene. Though all is not loss, for these poems are love songs to wild regions, land, and kinship, even when it means people will pass away, - those so tightly held in love, often met with anticipatory grief, that liminal space / between hope / and letting go. - Jeffrey Alfier, Co-editor, Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review With this earthy and honest collection, Agnes Vojta shows us what it is to be an immigrant, removed from family by miles but not heart. She shares the familiar and walks us with her loved ones through small moments into grand revelations. I was a stranger. Did not know/ the names of tree or bird./ Naming is knowing. Each poem is a naming of moments and observations, of memories and fears. Vojta's graceful writing holds us with delicate stark patience through her discoveries and losses into a collection we can return to with grateful reverence. She whispers words/ that are missing/ in the dictionary, / roars them in her rapids.- Jonie McIntire, Lucas County Ohio Poet Laureate (2022-2024); poetry editor Of Rust And Glass; author of Semidomesticated (winner of Red Flag Poetry's 2020 chapbook contest.)Agnes Vojta's poetry is rife with images of nature and the compassion for all living, sentient beings, even the mosquitos that the bats need to eat. It is also a book about loss, as she grapples with her aging parents who live in a continent away, from the home in Germany she left to live in the United States. She compares herself to the starlings that thrive in their new land, and she visits Dresden, where she finds the maples are the only thing that hasn't changed, as she certainly has in her new home, with a core of being that hasn't. Her book is like the coracle from the title poem, in which her poetry is large enough to hold a dream/ a dream just light/enough not to sink it. A moving and profound read, Vojta carries us in her coracle to an intimate world, and we are grateful for it.- Kika Dorsey, author of Occupied: Vienna is a Broken Man and Daughter of Hunger.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Author's Note: The idea for writing one poem a day for 100 days emerged slowly. In March, as we sheltered in place, I discovered that putting poems on Facebook allowed me to communicate with an immediacy that I usually only enjoyed at public readings. It tasted like bacon, like strong coffee. Naively, I thought 30 days would cover the worst of the pandemic. As I considered shutting down my daily posts, returning to sending poems out to small presses, I experienced a sense of loss, of isolation, that troubled me. I kept writing and posting, finding that I needed the electronic human contact more than a vetted publication with little feedback. Consequently, these poems have been self-published only on my Facebook platform, and on occasion, on the Kansas City Writer's Place website. In Swimming Shelter the poems are arranged chronologically as they appeared. Little has been done to revise, except for an occasional word choice selection or punctuation edit. I wrote each morning. Usually, stopping only when the poem was finished. A few appeared with an immediacy that surprised me. Other times, I worked off and on throughout the day, giving them up to the internet late at night, but seldom before I was satisfied. This went against the grain of my personal writing process, as I prefer to edit only after days or weeks have passed, letting the poems cool for the critical cold eye. Self-publication scared me, sort of like the time in junior high school, when I accidentally kicked off my penny loafer into the middle of the basketball court during a game. Ninth graders dribbled around my sad shoe like they might a mouse from the biology lab. The true embarrassment was that I'd forgotten to change my socks after gym class, and so there I was, swinging my dumb foot from the balcony in a sweat-stained sock. Essentially, my social life was ruined, and I became a poet.I'd like to thank Facebook readers who followed my posts, especially those who commented on what they read. Their words and emojis, likes and loves, let me feel like a village poet, sitting around a smoky fire, probably Irish, weaving words, inventing stories. I kept the organic character of original diction in place. The use of quarantine instead of stay-at-home or sheltering-in-place is an example of learning terminology, new words for a new time. The inaccuracies are honest. These poems are not all about Covid-19, per se, but all of them, for better or worse, were discovered while swimming in shelter, crawling for calm water. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "J.T. Knoll's book, Counterpart, is a breath of fresh cut grass and peaceful like a summer night. He leaves us wanting to know more about the small-town pool hall owner who watches over the high school kids and the neighbor lady who shares her peonies. He finds mercy in the elderly mother who has grown kinder as her memory grows softer. Like William Stafford and Carl Sandburg, Knoll writes clear and subtly insightful poems that draw on precise descriptions of the natural world. The big Kansas sky, the beloved dog, and the train run throughout the book. Knoll loves Kansas like one might love "cheerios," and "dandelion bracelets." Anyone viewing Kansas through his eyes will love it, too."-Beth Gruver Gulley, The Sticky Note Alphabet (Alien Buddha Press)"The poems in J.T. Knoll's excellent collection Counterpart manages to pull off the minor miracle of being both Kodachrome-saturated snapshots of memory and timeless. Shifting between a blue collar Kansas that may no longer exist and the present, Knolls creates a personal mythology of experience. This is poetry on a very human level, delivered at a time when we might desperately need it the most."-Troy Schoultz, author of No Quiet Entrances and co-author of Remnants."J.T. Knoll's poems consistently find the remarkable within the mundane; the spiritual, if not religious, within the secular. Some poems are lyrical, both humorous and ironic, songs to the living; others are hardscrabble from the coal mines, the railroad, the corner black market fireworks stand, alive with people, those we've known and possibly forgotten. Counterpart connects the ordinary to the extraordinary. Each poem is a tribute to our everyday communion with the transcendental. It's a book for the nightstand and for tomorrow."- Al Ortolani, Swimming Shelter"With precise, evocative language J.T. Knoll captures the essence of life in rural Kansas. Whether his subjects are coal miners, farmers, neighboring housewives or his own childhood, Knoll's poetry reminds us that by looking at the everyday world around us, by listening to human stories and by connecting to nature, we can find the spiritual in the quotidian. He makes the ordinary extraordinary." - Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, Daughter of Spies: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. To read Agnes Vojta's A Coracle of Dreams is to sigh at each poem's end with satisfaction, awe, and poignancy that this is poetry. As she traces the decline and passing of her father, she turns to nature for solace and wisdom and brings her reader along with her, our guide who points out the most exquisite, revelatory details, making every closely observed stanza, line, and word palpable, a place where we can return to the ineffable. Here we flow with the spirit of the river and every place is the right place / every time is the right time, not because of the order humans impose on the world but because of the ecosystem whose physics she tenderly sings into being. - Aliki Barnstone, Poet Laureate of Missouri, 2016-2019, Author of Dwelling, Translator of Liana Sakelliou's Portrait Before DarkAgnes Vojta's poems in Coracle for Dreams are written with intelligent and richly crafted images. They draw us into a keen sense of Place and its relationship to those seeking permanence- the dream driven, who journey between homes forsaken and homes gained in new lands. The speakers learn through the naming of flora and fauna that . naming is knowing, and Familiarity breeds love of newfound landscapes. Yet nature is not reflexively centered, but rather teaches us how to grow / despite gaping wounds. Narrative and memory are not without poetic engagement with death and the end of what we thought would endure. Observing a landscape where woods were drowned to build a dam, We float between cedar ghosts, sojourners whose eyes engage the soft silence of the scene. Though all is not loss, for these poems are love songs to wild regions, land, and kinship, even when it means people will pass away, - those so tightly held in love, often met with anticipatory grief, that liminal space / between hope / and letting go. - Jeffrey Alfier, Co-editor, Blue Horse Press and San Pedro River Review With this earthy and honest collection, Agnes Vojta shows us what it is to be an immigrant, removed from family by miles but not heart. She shares the familiar and walks us with her loved ones through small moments into grand revelations. I was a stranger. Did not know/ the names of tree or bird./ Naming is knowing. Each poem is a naming of moments and observations, of memories and fears. Vojta's graceful writing holds us with delicate stark patience through her discoveries and losses into a collection we can return to with grateful reverence. She whispers words/ that are missing/ in the dictionary, / roars them in her rapids.- Jonie McIntire, Lucas County Ohio Poet Laureate (2022-2024); poetry editor Of Rust And Glass; author of Semidomesticated (winner of Red Flag Poetry's 2020 chapbook contest.)Agnes Vojta's poetry is rife with images of nature and the compassion for all living, sentient beings, even the mosquitos that the bats need to eat. It is also a book about loss, as she grapples with her aging parents who live in a continent away, from the home in Germany she left to live in the United States. She compares herself to the starlings that thrive in their new land, and she visits Dresden, where she finds the maples are the only thing that hasn't changed, as she certainly has in her new home, with a core of being that hasn't. Her book is like the coracle from the title poem, in which her poetry is large enough to hold a dream/ a dream just light/enough not to sink it. A moving and profound read, Vojta carries us in her coracle to an intimate world, and we are grateful for it.- Kika Dorsey, author of Occupied: Vienna is a Broken Man and Daughter of Hunger.…

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Zustand: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: Third ] Publisher: Spartan Press, L.L.C Pub Date: 5/9/2012 Binding: Paperback Pages: 322 Third edition.

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