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Concertina: Poems

Leslie Schultz

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Description:“Art sings a whole from a world in tatters,” writes poet Leslie Schultz in this remarkable collection. Schultz employs precise poetic forms to locate the “mineral music of our very bones.” The poems proclaim the material world – “the essential necessities… that make dreams real” - to celebrate poetry’s “ethereal alchemy.” Each poem creates a conversation between the poet and her many-layered audience. In “Open for Business,” the writer tells her father, “I’m still listening.” The poet’s voice here is accomplished, formal, witty, strange, and listening hard: to family stories, to nature’s notes, to the rooms of her house, to days “distinct with wonder.” In “Taproot,” a “crown” of 18 sonnets for and about Schultz’s great-great-grandfather, each sonnet begins with the last line of the prior sonnet and transforms it to reshape the story. One sonnet turns an assertion to a question: “Can I build as lightly as birds/word shelters for the living and the dead?” This collection says yes.Susan Jaret McKinstryLeslie Schultz’s poems are gifts, written for those who are near and dear to her, and through her caring and careful artistry, these personal gifts become gifts for us, her readers. Her poems, like family photographs, recreate an intimacy in which we can discover unexpected resemblances to ourselves.Rob HardyIn Concertina, Schultz pays homage to her family, friends, mentors, peers, and vocation as a poet. The tone is intimate, yet the poems extend to all of us. Many are sonnets, a form she knows well—she gets in, gets out, dazzles us with her language, insights, and images, yet keeps us tethered to where we are. There is a strong narrative element running through “Tap Root,” yet each is its own lens through which to view a life and legacy. The sequence is linked so convincingly that it seems as if this is the only appropriate form in which to present this thoughtful, stirring elegy. Had Bach returned to us in this time and place and decided to write poetry, maybe Concertina would be what he’d produce.Ken McCulloughWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Concertina: Poems. To get started finding Concertina: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “Art sings a whole from a world in tatters,” writes poet Leslie Schultz in this remarkable collection. Schultz employs precise poetic forms to locate the “mineral music of our very bones.” The poems proclaim the material world – “the essential necessities… that make dreams real” - to celebrate poetry’s “ethereal alchemy.” Each poem creates a conversation between the poet and her many-layered audience. In “Open for Business,” the writer tells her father, “I’m still listening.” The poet’s voice here is accomplished, formal, witty, strange, and listening hard: to family stories, to nature’s notes, to the rooms of her house, to days “distinct with wonder.” In “Taproot,” a “crown” of 18 sonnets for and about Schultz’s great-great-grandfather, each sonnet begins with the last line of the prior sonnet and transforms it to reshape the story. One sonnet turns an assertion to a question: “Can I build as lightly as birds/word shelters for the living and the dead?” This collection says yes.Susan Jaret McKinstryLeslie Schultz’s poems are gifts, written for those who are near and dear to her, and through her caring and careful artistry, these personal gifts become gifts for us, her readers. Her poems, like family photographs, recreate an intimacy in which we can discover unexpected resemblances to ourselves.Rob HardyIn Concertina, Schultz pays homage to her family, friends, mentors, peers, and vocation as a poet. The tone is intimate, yet the poems extend to all of us. Many are sonnets, a form she knows well—she gets in, gets out, dazzles us with her language, insights, and images, yet keeps us tethered to where we are. There is a strong narrative element running through “Tap Root,” yet each is its own lens through which to view a life and legacy. The sequence is linked so convincingly that it seems as if this is the only appropriate form in which to present this thoughtful, stirring elegy. Had Bach returned to us in this time and place and decided to write poetry, maybe Concertina would be what he’d produce.Ken McCulloughWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Concertina: Poems. To get started finding Concertina: Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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