Virtual Artists Collective

Two Southwests

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Book, Schroeder, Steven
Date: 
2008
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This bilingual collection gathers poems by twenty-seven contemporary poets from the southwestern United States and southwestern China – “two southwests,” two variations on an illusion of geographic precision behind which there are people who find themselves in both natural environments and political ones, who come to know in various ways that what we can and cannot see is as likely to depend on a map as a mountain, or when and where the river is dry enough to cross. What we say and what we don’t, as surely as what we see and what we can’t, are products of politics as well as location. But, politics and perspective aside, it is a matter of collision – and putting ourselves in places where we will collide can be an aid to vision. By bringing poets together in two places similarly named by virtue of their respective places on somebody else’s maps, we intend to facilitate a collision. In our southwests, there is space for silence – and the intersection of sky with earth on open plains can teach us to appreciate nothing whether the plateau beneath our feet is below Tibet or above the Caprock. Between the poems and between the lines, nothing that is there may make our being present a bit more possible. *
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English
Chinese
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*Abstract taken from http://vacpoetry.org/two-southwests/
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9780979882562

Discovering Moons

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2009
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"Judith Valente’s poems are deeply rooted in the everyday world, and yet transport us to a place in the soul, a place that C.S. Lewis once described as “the real, real world.” She is a poet concerned with those moments that telescope the sacred in the ordinary, offer a clarifying vision of what it means to be human, and remind us we are part of something larger than ourselves. These are love poems to life, whether she is writing about a lunar eclipse, the origin of the alphabet, the art of finding beauty in flaws, or an imagined stroll with William Carlos Williams. The poems contain a keen sense of place. They transport us to a summer parade in rural Illinois, a beach under stars on the island of Maui, a sacred festival in Chiang Mai, a classroom in a Catholic girls school in northern New Jersey. In language that is at once accessible and inventive, these open-handed poems remind us it is a miracle simply to be alive." http://vacpoetry.org/discovering-moons.html
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978-0-9798825-8-6

Chasing the Saints

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Book, Pucciani, Donna
Date: 
2008
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"Donna Pucciani’s third book of poetry explores the relationship of the human to the divine through the lives of the saints, ranging from the legendary St. Christopher and the ancient martyrs Lucy and Sebastian to the more modern Father Damien, the Leper-Priest, to perennial favorites St. Patrick and St. Francis of Assisi, and three Teresas: Therese of Lisieux (“the little”), Teresa of Avila (“the great”) and Mother Teresa of Calcutta." *
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English
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* taken from the publisher's website
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0977297462
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vacpoetry.org
dpucciani@yahoo.com

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