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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Sarah Lantz is a new voice offering sensual, lyrical poetry and dazzling imagery with Rumi’s sense of the divine. This first collection of deeply spiritual poetry explores the longings of the soul and tests the penetrable boundary between the living world and the ethereal. Sarah Lantz articulates complex emotions in a manner that makes poetry accessible while remaining elusive, heartbreaking and yet hopeful, romantic yet startlingly real. She creates a world in which small, ordinary moments posses elements of divinity, moving through time and space to discover "all I knew before I was born." Lantz explores her past and the past of the family members killed in the holocaust while working to make sense of the present. Review:"Large-hearted, linguistically inventive, historically engaged — these poems have a disarming and daft magic, an unlikely mix of sophistication and folk tale — at times, Chagallian; at others, darkened by historical sorrow. In ruined olive groves, in long-deserted villages whose church bells keep tolling, on distant plains where the drumming of wild herds is the percussion of freedom — in all these, a world, fabled and for real, shapes itself, one that looks in time's two directions at once. By the volume's close, it is clear that what has taken root far beyond triage is joy." Eleanor Wilner Review:"A strong voice in a dark time, Lantz's raw, worldly, rambunctious poems traverse oceans and deserts, time, space, history, geography, and ferry us to other shores. Read 'Oranges and the West Bank' or 'Making Do: A Fable' to see 'where else we are.'" Dorianne Laux Review:"In Far Beyond Triage, Sarah Lantz has crafted a series of poems whose fierce — indeed icy &3151; clarity is matched by a bitter poignancy. At times visionary (observing, for instance, 'the chaos of daybreak/and its obsession with the sun') and at times trenchantly political (noting, for example, that 'the distinction between/criminals and heroes/is frequently only fashion'), Lantz is always fully in command of complex and acutely relevant lyric material." Sandra Gilbert Review:"In the opening poem, 'The Same Water,' Sarah Lantz offers us a 'message in a bottle' beginning with the mysterious image, 'Yesterday,/I saw a cat slide/from a riverbank/with an eel in its mouth.' Many of my favorite lines are finely drawn images like these: 'memory...that great baobob of synapses,' 'the baby's teeth inside the cantaloupe,' 'a moon come winter that hauls its Mars uphill.' Such moments in Far Beyond Triage are truly messages that connect us to the vivid, physical world." Ellen Bass Synopsis:A new voice offering lyrical poety and dazzling imagery with Rumi's sense of the divine.
About the AuthorSarah Lantz has been published in the Denver Quarterly, The Marlboro Review, CALYX, Paris/Atlantic, and Sister Stew, among others. She is a secondary school teacher and has taught poetry as a Poet in the Schools in Oregon and Hawaii. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and is a member of the Pearl Poets in Portland, Oregon. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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