Search Results: Returned 3 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 3
-
-
2015., Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Call No: QWF 811.6 M387s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Ilona Martonfiœs third poetry collection, The Snow Kimono, can best described as an obsession with truth. The Snow Kimono invites the reader into a magical world where reality shimmers with the fragile beauty of the moment and the dark, haunting awareness of a painful past that lingers just out of sight. Compassionate and disturbing, witness poems elaborate on history, exile, the war refugee, the dispossessed, and the disappeared. Other, more personal poems concern themselves with love, identity, place, and with loss especially in the series keening for a mentally ill daughter. The past and the present mix in this compelling collection of free verse and prose poetry that draw the reader into a language that illuminates the way in which the beauty of human spirit is both concise and eloquent.
-
-
2022., Inanna Poetry & Fiction Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 M Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Tempest is an impressionistic sketchbook, its verses experimenting across a wide expanse of forms to achieve the same goal: bearing witness to the truth. Martonfi has hewn her own spare lines to recast her book's obsession with the politics, violences, and musics of the oral. What draws the reader to this book of fractured tales is the vividness of the pieces and dedication to brevity, which loan to the strength of the poems' collective voice: different political conflicts, cultures, genders, ages, races speak to one shared human narrative. As we follow these survivors into their past and present lives, the poems emerge and they sing: the human soul endures in the poetry."--
