Text(isles)

By Nancy Kassell

Poetry. "Nancy Kassell's new (and first) collection TEXT(ISLES) is mature, humane, truly learned. The poems, unique, accurate, beautiful, are a model of emotional intelligence. Their context is as multidimensional as life and history itself. They evoke the classical world Horace, Ovid, Aeneas, myth revisited; they introduce a woman-friendly world especially in their focus on the significance and language of cloth, of sewing, of pattern and texture; they 'translate' music (Brahms, Bach), painting (Klee, Soutine), art history; they explore sky, earth, water, cellular life; they evoke the centrality of love. Like the title, the poems fragment and reconcile the worlds they create. Myth and metaphor and 'reality' are interchangeable and fresh. 'It is no news, / that we have to reinvent ourselves/ again and again./ Unless we've already given up, / the light over the drawing board/ is always on.' There is reassurance in the scope and beauty of TEXT(ISLES), hope in its minutest details." Sondra Zeidenstein"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939929059
• ISBN13: 9781939929051
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: DOS Madres Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"