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astonishing
Author_Maurya Simon
beauty
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=NL-DC
compassion
compassionate
COP=United States
dazzling intellect
dense writing
discomfort
Discount=15
discovery
dynamic
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humanity
illuminating experience
imaginative
IMPN=Red Hen Press
ISBN13=9781597096102
Language_English
life
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metaphysical
nature
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POP=Pasadena
Price_€20 to €50
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PUB=Red Hen Press
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Subject=Poetry
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woman
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Product details
- ISBN 9781597096102
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 25mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: Pasadena, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems compiles more than thirty years of Maurya Simon’s poetic oeuvre. Her poems combine compelling investigations of the natural world with a sense of spirituality and a modern-day metaphysical sensibility. Simon's writing is lucid and deeply moving, as well as being enriched by history, the classics, and visual art. These are poems that should be read, reread, and savored for the wisdom they impart and for their rich insights into the human condition. This beautiful book is illustrated with seventeen evocative, color-saturated paintings from the WEAVERS SERIES by Los Angeles artist, Baila Goldenthal.
After watching a royal wedding on the streets of Paris at age 5, Maurya Simon scrawled her first poem. Decades later, she’s still at it, with an award-winning oeuvre that muses on everything from the origin of parentheses (in her chapbook A Brief History of Punctuation) to what lies beyond death (answer: “A fever of unknowing, a match-head struck in the darkness of the void. A blue door without a handle that suddenly swings open”). Simon, a UC Riverside professor emerita who was raised in Western Europe and Hermosa Beach by an artist mother and musicologist father, has also created monoprints and composed an opera libretto. She’s now working on a young adult detective novel about a diamond heist. Other new projects include a memoir about her dad, who taught at Cal Poly Pomona, and her 11th volume of poetry.
