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Essential Fables
Poems and Art
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Author: Vonnie Winslow Crist
Publisher: Lite Circle Books
Size: 6 X 9 inches, 96 pages
Format: Perfect Bound Trade Paperback
Categories:
-Poetry
-Womens Life
-Arts and Photography
ABID: 9780964162204
ISBN10: 0964162202
ISBN13: 9780964162204
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"Essential Fables" is a collection of 45 poems, many of them award-winners, and 6 pen & ink illustrations by Maryland State Arts Council Poet, Vonnie Winslow Crist. Many of the poems have myth, fable, or folktale images. Included in the book are poems selected by Pulitzer Prize winner, Mary Oliver, for a Special Merit Award in Baltimore's Artscape Literary Competition.
*Vonnie will donate $1 to Books for Boots, whose mission is "to help greviously wounded war heroes" in VA hospitals, for each copy of "Essential Fables" purchased from AuthorsBookshop.com
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| Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize Winner: | | "Roads are a continuing presence in Essential Fables -- the poems offer neatly and empathically presented observations, or scenes, almost as if the writer were hurrying by. The poems, slight of discourse, are nevertheless sharply focused, pithy, and memorable." |
| Marta Knobloch, Columbia Book Award Winner: | "Essential Fables, the title of this collection of poetry has been thoughtfully chosen to reflect the thematic cohesion of the poems and illustrations by its artist/author, Vonnie Winslow Crist. Folklorist Joseph Campbell has written, "A myth is a map." The mythic pathway we travel with Ms. Crist through her verse begins with the fabled lives of Isis and Penelope transformed by the perceptive insights of a Twentieth Century woman. It leads us across an ocean to hear a Native American musician reveal the archaic beings of the New World through her flute song. It lures us deep into the mountain hollows of Scottish immigrants 'knee deep in jewel-weed and sweetbriar' where 'folk warn/ "if you stare into a moonshoadow/ you can see the past"'. It hurls us into the fast-lane of 'an enpty highway' where biker chick, Robyn, guns a Harley toward 'a kaleidoscope of possibility' and 'the street glitters like shattered glass'.
Ms. Crist understands that the trail of American myth winds through shadows as well as sunlight. She can feel burdened by 'the death haunted weight/ of landscape and life.' Yet in charting our essential fables, Ms. Crist sees her quest as 'a gathering in/ of important things' and knows 'that tourists travel light,/ only taking home/ that which cannot be replaced." |
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