Laura Glenn

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Full of vibrant color and details of nature closely observed, </div> <div> attuned to questions of perception, proximity, and scale, their </div> <div> sensibility is permeable, mutable. Reflections implode, the material </div> <div> takes on immateriality, substance is seen as transient. No poet </div> <div> better expresses the way in which our physical, literal position in </div> <div> the world changes our perception of the world. The lens for this </div> <div> knowing is at once compassionate and unremitting, vibrating with mind </div> <div> and feeling, a vision so profound and riddling, I was reminded, at </div> <div> times, of Dickinson. There are exquisite love poems and elegies that </div> <div> make solitary grief less solitary: poems that console because their </div> <div> vision is accurate and true--proportionate to misery as well as joy. </div> <div> There's also wit and humor, as in the deliciously playful "Dressing </div> <div> Up as Keats's 'To Autumn,'" and acknowledgment of the distractions </div> <div> that interrupt experience. Laura Glenn is engaged with all it means </div> <div> to be alive--right now, right here--and this quality of attention </div> <div> gives her poems a thrilling depth. I was both impressed and </div> <div> enthralled by work so equal to life's unsettlements and bliss.” </div> <div> <I>--Alice Fulton</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> “As a poet-painter, my writing is often visually oriented regardless of subject matter. Though most of the poems in <I>I Can't Say I'm Lost </I>are not about art, the book is, in the words of poet David Weiss, “nicely punctuated with painting poems.” These poems were selected from a much larger body of work-some are considerably older; some, for the moment, are recent; with a range in between. Many reflect ongoing concerns; others denote transience and change. Though the poems do not shy away from intense themes, my hope is that the reader will experience how, to quote from a poem in the book titled “The Well”: “as layers of water displace layers, / a sense of well-being / arises from the mixing of self with self.” </div> <div> <I>--Laura Glenn</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Laura Glenn has published poems in many magazines, including<I> </I><I>The Antioch Review,</I> <I>Boulevard, Chelsea, Epoch, Green Mountains Review, The Massachusetts Review, Rattapallax, Poet Lore</I><I>, </I>and <I>Poetry</I><I>. </I>She is a recipient of a CAP fellowship in poetry. Also a visual artist, she lives in Ithaca, NY, with her husband and son, where she works as a freelance editor.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="20fb5b40.jpg" border=0 width="181" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Balancing Act</div> <div> <I>Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed.         </I></div> <div> <I>Give me the tightrope.</I>                                                           </div> <div>                                                                                            -Edith Wharton               </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Unflinching, the parrot crosses the high wire            </div> <div> on a tiny bicycle, croaks out a song-</div> <div> charms the crowd with panache.</div> <bR> <div> The high wire's taut</div> <div> as a one-stringed instrument. Why not                                                         </div> <div> set it at the height of art</div> <bR> <div> on the wall? Say, Paul Klee's                    </div> <div> painting of a tightrope walker that hangs           </div> <div> across the room.</div> <bR> <div> Klee lived in dangerous times.</div> <div> All times are dangerous.   </div> <div> How then do I navigate</div> <bR> <div> through this life</div> <div> -balancing- </div> <div> pen in one hand, paintbrush in the other,</div> <bR> <div> over featherbeds and bed rock?</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>I Can't Say I'm Lost</B></I></div> <div> is a 92-page hand-stitched paper book with spine.</div> <div> $16.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE           <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Palatino Linotype" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada       <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="I Can't Say I'm Lost"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-29"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="I Can't Say I'm Lost"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-29"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>