It's a Crooked Road, but Not Far, to the House of Flowers - by Wendy Erd (Paperback)
About this item
Highlights
- These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to a magical wish for those living on the streets of Saigon.
- Author(s): Wendy Erd
- 82 Pages
- Poetry, Women Authors
Description
About the Book
These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to a magical wish for those living on the streets of Saigon.
Book Synopsis
These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to a magical wish for those living on the streets of Saigon. Time lives differently in this work. Poems layer details of the human and natural world with the heart tugging awareness of the ephemeral nature of all things. Within that tender beauty, these poems offer the possibility of transformation. An unfathomable radiance moves through us/ we are more of this world than we know, and less.
"So many moments I had to look away toward the horizon and let a poem settle in my heart." -Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar
Review Quotes
EARLY PRAISE
-Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar
"The profound inversions of the senses in Wendy Erd's poems drifting backwards, floating forwards guide us with deft reverence to see more of this world than we knew we knew."
-Lady Borton, author, After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese
"Beautiful, gorgeous book! Wendy Erd's words have always had spirit-cleansing power. She abides in such intimate relation to everything, spruce trees of Alaska, porcupines, snow, a packet of morning-glory seeds, a Kunming grocery, a long loving relationship, inevitable aging - that her spare phrases and stanzas all feel like deep home. Each day could begin this way / with simple tools. These poems are exquisite compasses to live by."
-Naomi Shihab Nye, author, Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems