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Anne C. Coon

Via del Paradiso

(A collection of poems from Siena, Italy.)

Anne C. Coon's poetry collection Daedalus' Daughter was published by FootHills Publishing in 2004. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Nimrod, The Baltimore Review, Northeast Corridor, Proteus, The Lyric, Earth's Daughters, and Women's Studies, and in the anthology Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay (McGraw-Hill). A selection of poems from Via del Paradiso was published as Henry James Sat Here, an illustrated limited edition from The Old School Press, Bath, UK. Anne C. Coon is the editor of Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer (Greenwood Press, 1994) and is a Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York.

Kurt Feuerherm's cover illustration “Siena” is based on the Simone Martini fresco “Guido Riccio da Fogliano” in the Sala del Mappamondo, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy. Now living in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, he has lived and taught in Florence and traveled extensively throughout Tuscany. Works by Kurt Feuerherm appear in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Syracuse Everson Gallery, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, and Rochester Memorial Art Gallery.

From the book:

Parenthetical

One life opens quietly

within another

as a parenthesis

spreads the words

to make room.

Possibility blossoms

in this breach --

the stroke of the closing mark

remains out of view.

La Mattina Presto

I rise early

la mattina presto

to walk alone

before the furled day

has spread its colors.

The city is most pure

when the sun just lights the Campo

and the first cups of espresso

appear on marble bars;

waiters in white jackets

set out umbrellas and potted plants.

I walk with light steps in the empty Duomo

where shadows fill the arches

and the high stained-glass windows claim all light.

Without the echoes of voices or footfalls,

the marble has only to stand and be still.

Invisible, I do the same.

Renaming the World

I came to this place

to speak a new language

to begin to rename my world.

Word for today: Esaurito

exhausted, sold out.

ISBN: 0-941053-16-4

Via del Paradiso

is a 64 page hand-sewn book with spine - $12.00

TO ORDER ON-LINE

To order through mail click here

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Anne's First Book from FootHills (2004)

Daedalus' Daughter

Anne C. Coon

Contents

Part One

Daedalus' Daughter 8

Passenger 9

Catch and Release 10

Turkey in the Straw 11

Menarche 12

Honeoye Lake 13

Western Wind Reconsidered 14

What's Lost 15

This Tender Cage 21

Part Two

Queen Anne's Lace 32

Oyster Stew 34

Duly Noted 36

Under the Piecèd Quilt 37

Still, electric 38

Getting Pregnant 39

Gramercy Park Film Noir 40

Insomnia 41

Memory Made Flesh 42

Prayer 43

What then? 44

The First 34 Stages of Grief 45

Don't 46

Hang-up Call 47

Reclaiming Earth 48

Ephemera 49

From the book:

Daedalus' Daughter

My father and I both fly at night.

He takes off from a waterbed

moored at the edge of the lake,

while I, a land-locked second-story sleeper,

rise and skim the night air

thirty miles away.

He soars high, agile and air-borne,

-- bursting out of formation --

while I hover below ceilings

rise through doorways

swim just above the details of the day.

And tho' we've never met

on these nocturnal trips

we each recognized at once

the joy the other recalled:

the muscles in the arms drawing down

as the torso rises aloft, pulling away, coasting,

veering with the will of the body.

In these solitary flights, not buoyed

by mite-bitten feathers,

castoffs of a better bird,

but borne up entirely -- and only --

by the arched frame of imagination

we leave behind the ideograms of our lives

the sculpted rooms, gardens, and roads:

seen from above,

a labyrinth.

Daedalus' Daughter is a 52 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - $10.00.

TO ORDER Daedalus' Daughter ON-LINE

To order through mail click here


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