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Breathing Spaces

Anna O. Soter

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Description:After many years of hard and invigorating labor as a teacher and a superb teacher-of-teachers, the poet in Anna Soter now reaches out to us as a steward of how the mind enters the body again. Her work continually seeks currents of momentum to transform our sculpted interiorities into organs of sensation and renewal. In poem after poem she ponders the deep purposes of our physical selves reclaiming their newly discovered territories—as a cat “will lick its strong yellow paws when it has strutted its path.” These poems strut their own path and ask us (mind in tow) to follow. —Terry Hermsen, Professor, English Department, Otterbein University, and author of A House for Last Year’s Summer As the title of Anna Soter’s lovely Breathing Spaces suggests, her poems engage us in the spaces between America / Australia, mother / son, child / adult, urban / rural, human/machine, nature / domesticity, competition / relaxation. In one poem this is made vivid in the image of a dog breathing blissfully, his eyes closed, his head outside the window of a moving car. Nature is a source of respite and awe in these poems, the place where one comes of age, is hurt yet survives, where one develops awareness of and respect for “blue dust” dangers and severed branches that can cut deeply. Birds soar through the collection, rising to metaphor for poets as winged creatures who “relearn to fly.” The epigraphs between sections hint at deep structure, and the collection’s themes are gathered adroitly in the final language, child versus adult preoccupations, human longing, great nature. Kay Bea Jones’ painting on the cover literally foreshadows the “leaves” of poems inside. —Charlene Fix is the author of Flowering A Dography (poems, XOXOX Press), Frankenstein’s Flowers (poems, CW Books), and Harpo Marx as Trickster (McFarland). She is an Emeritus Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Breathing Spaces. To get started finding Breathing Spaces, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: After many years of hard and invigorating labor as a teacher and a superb teacher-of-teachers, the poet in Anna Soter now reaches out to us as a steward of how the mind enters the body again. Her work continually seeks currents of momentum to transform our sculpted interiorities into organs of sensation and renewal. In poem after poem she ponders the deep purposes of our physical selves reclaiming their newly discovered territories—as a cat “will lick its strong yellow paws when it has strutted its path.” These poems strut their own path and ask us (mind in tow) to follow. —Terry Hermsen, Professor, English Department, Otterbein University, and author of A House for Last Year’s Summer As the title of Anna Soter’s lovely Breathing Spaces suggests, her poems engage us in the spaces between America / Australia, mother / son, child / adult, urban / rural, human/machine, nature / domesticity, competition / relaxation. In one poem this is made vivid in the image of a dog breathing blissfully, his eyes closed, his head outside the window of a moving car. Nature is a source of respite and awe in these poems, the place where one comes of age, is hurt yet survives, where one develops awareness of and respect for “blue dust” dangers and severed branches that can cut deeply. Birds soar through the collection, rising to metaphor for poets as winged creatures who “relearn to fly.” The epigraphs between sections hint at deep structure, and the collection’s themes are gathered adroitly in the final language, child versus adult preoccupations, human longing, great nature. Kay Bea Jones’ painting on the cover literally foreshadows the “leaves” of poems inside. —Charlene Fix is the author of Flowering A Dography (poems, XOXOX Press), Frankenstein’s Flowers (poems, CW Books), and Harpo Marx as Trickster (McFarland). She is an Emeritus Professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Breathing Spaces. To get started finding Breathing Spaces, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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