Inheritor - Softcover

Stevens, Jeanine

 
9781942371021: Inheritor

Inhaltsangabe

Jeanine Stevens is interested in origins. Intrigued and inspired by the elusive, the edge of things and fragments, these concerns come to life in INHERITOR, which includes portraits of women: a first job, thrift stores, a bombed-out kitchen, Helen at Troy, a seedy garret and an invitation to the Aphrodite Taverna. There is also an appreciation of the sensuousness of the male body in “Kelp,” Five Nudes” and “Minotaur Surprised while Eating.” Locales include the Sierras, America’s Midwest, the Dordogne and the Aegean. The first poem, “Wintering Mushrooms,” sets the tone of the unexpected in remote places. It is evident that the author is mesmerized by Rumi and other cultures past and present. Even with war, ecological damage and poverty, beauty and desire exist. These poems give the reader insight into personal symbols, a melody perhaps, a scent, an overindulgence in figs and sardines. Follow the thread; the steppes, the savannas, the Solomons are waiting.

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Jeanine Stevens is author of a previous book of poems, Sailing on Milkweed, and six chapbooks. She has won the MacGuffin Poet Hunt, the Stockton Arts Commission Award, the Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference Award (for a collection), and the Bay Area Poet’s Coalition Prize. Her work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. A member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Sable and Quill (poets who are also artists), Stevens is Professor Emeritus at American River College. Raised in Indiana, she now lives with her husband, photographer Greg Chalpin, in Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.

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