A Kind of Yellow - Softcover

Lewis, Patricia Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976842106 ISBN 13: 9780976842101

Verlag: Patchwork Farm Pr, 2005

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Book by Lewis Patricia Lee

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Students in high school English Literature classes in CT respond to A Kind of Yellow: "Lewis managed to take very sensitive issues, very private issues, and somehow make them relatable.... Some of the poetry I have read, some Emily Dickinson's poems and older works like that, I just couldn't seem to grasp. I could not connect to them on a very personal level; sometimes I felt I were trying to relate more to Dickinson herself than to her subject matter.... Lewis took us on a journey, and it wasn't' always full of hope; sometimes it was too full of sorrow to see any light on the other side. But in the end, there was her strength, and that gave me strength. I felt honored, and I mean this very honestly, that she would assume our intelligence was up to par with her own." [Response to "Unicorn," p.24] "I cannot get over "Unicorn" because it was such a sensitive subject. It was so personal, and I think she really took a chance by putting thoughts like that out there, because a lot of people simply wouldn't get it....[they] would see soiled underpants and be grossed out. But I feel like she trusts the world to be smart and intelligent... maybe it's her own intelligence. In the end, I felt Lewis did not want to be incomprehensible. She did not want any reader to feel excluded, as if they could not possibly understand. Perhaps it's her own experiences that have made her so strong-willed, but I really felt that she wrote this book for everyone and anyone... to connect her emotions to ours. She knows what it feels like to paint on that fake face, and she didn't want this to be a fake book of poetry... [it is] ... a gift she laid out for me to read." "After reading these poems I honestly realized what poetry is really about....(Before...) the poetry I wrote was cheesy and insincere....I never wanted people to know about the negative things that happened to me in the past. (Now...) ...If Lewis can write about such personal, huge topics then so can I." "This book surprised me because to me, it wasn't "conventional" poetry. It wasn't your regular, run-of-the-mill stuff. It was unique and brave and daring and touching. I liked that things didn't rhyme, that she talked about periods and suicide and she swore. I imagine some would be intimidated by that kind of boldness and forwardness, but I appreciated it." These 25 poems are of loss, grief and celebration. They speak of personal transcendence and renewal through a life that includes teen pregnancy, domestic violence, being a single mother of three, including a gifted, disturbed child, surviving a son's suicide.

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"I would be a woman mad with courage...a lotus spreading," begins Patricia's celebration of integration. From this opening line of "Preacher's Daughter," the final poem of A Kind of Yellow, the reader recalls from earlier poems the "stubborn, "frowning child," the battered teen mother, and the grief-stricken mother surviving the death of a son, and now can celebrate the present-day woman who finds beauty and eternity in the losses of her life. A Kind of Yellow honors all of life's gifts, from the "decaying body" to the "loud, expanding heart." As award-winning poet Richard Jackson said of these poems, "...there is movement from the physical to the transcendent, from the self outward, and each poem gathers definitions as it moves along, like lines or images in a poem." The book becomes in itself, a poem. Learn more about A Kind of Yellow, about Patricia's domestic and international retreats and calendar of events at www.writingretreats.org

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• Verlag: Patchwork Farm Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0976842106
• ISBN 13: 9780976842101
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32