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The Carver's Dream
Poetry. Andrea Moorhead's poems are rooted in the rugged landscapes of James Bay, the American West, and the North Atlantic coast. Language becomes a stone carver's chisel, a transformative tool that allows the voice of the stone to speak, to reflect, to participate in the artisan's exploration of the spiritual world. The often-violent natural forces that shape the North American landscape--wind, fire, rain, and snow--are the context for the poet's meditations. From time to time, the poet must withdraw to the hermitage and live in calm simplicity, communicating only with the land. Working the land, listening and observing its changing states, one comes to understand the carver's dream--the hope of freeing the voice of the Earth by creating a spiritual vessel that moves between the human and the natural worlds. Moorhead's poems invite us to listen to the many voices of the Earth as they sing and howl and rage across the North American continent.
Do Not Disclose this Word
Translated from the original Quebecois, and with an introductory preface by Andrea Moorhead: "Language used as a musical instrument to accompany a silent voice provides the reader of Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon's poems with a blueprint of the emotional nuances of his texts. . . . His texts are often rhapsodic invocations to the absence of communion in communication. They stand as antique sentinels of a pristine poetic language that comes straight from the heart -- via the voice".
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The Edges of Light
At the centre of these texts is the person loved: never described, never allowed to speak, this eternal body, this love that emerges from the shadows around us, central to the voice of the poems, loved with constance and unswerving fidelity, pledge of the poem's lifeblood, impression of their voice, their image, their pressing against the limits of banality, daily depression, personal despair. The words echo in the reader's head. Despite the highly chiselled use of language, the almost clinically cold choice of words, the adherence to the vocabulary of daily discourse, the poems offer strangely calming comfort, a soothing hope for those who question and move through the world with sensitivity and a certain tentativeness.
Fukushima Dreams
Fukushima Dreams goes to the heart of the March 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan and expresses people's bewilderment, loss, and sorrow. By sharing their feelings, however, people rediscover faith, joy, and the power of the imagination.
Tracing the Distance
Winner of the 10th annual Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Award for 2021 Slow, not cautious, a heartbeat away from the landscape. New England, Québec, Ontario. The nostalgia of memory; it's not childhood that haunts, but the landscapes of the heart, Niagara, Harpswell, Deerfield, Connecticut. The cold waters of Couchiching. Walking the land we love, with those we love. Following the American tradition of place, contradictory and jarring, transcendent, elusive, haunting, raw, Andrea Moorhead writes the spirit in its many bodies, in its many seasons and voices. Our common mortality, our desire to love, to cherish, to remember. An old apple tree is threatened, someone dies, an animal perishes. An immense love of the Earth shines through these writings. Tracing the distance between the heart and reality, between the continual movements and changes that impact our lives. A delicate palette knife applying textures and colors, the lens of dream camera capturing fleeting forms, a soft voice inviting us to walk the landscape together. Poetry.
Ariadne & Other Poems
From the Introduction by Andrea Moorhead: "Simplicity and silence form the central axis of Swanberg�s work in much the same manner as clarity of gesture and centered thought create the necessary dynamic tension in a Zen adept�s meditations. Swanberg�s poems are linguistic line drawings...The restricted palette of the poems acts as a translucent potter�s glaze or watercolorist�s wash. Gold, white, blue, and unspecified dark are the coordinates of the poems� light.... Binding everything together is the voice of the eternal feminine, the yin yang of harmony and dissention, the essential expression of fertility and art created and expressed in the female voice and point of view. Consciousness is co-shared in Swanberg�s world; the eternal feminine, viewed through classical mythological figures, allows us to move out of our limited and restrictive view of the natural world and into a more inclusive comprehension of the planet�s life forms. The ghost pony�s wonderful spirit is present for all those who allow imagination to open their spirits to the fundamental essence of the other creatures with whom we share the planet."
Beyond the Farm
During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged in American culture. Long stigmatized as a dangerous passion that led people to pursue fame at the expense of duty, ambition also raised concerns among American Revolutionaries who espoused self-sacrifice. After the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the creation of the federal republic in 1789, however, a new ethos of nation-making took hold in which ambition, properly cultivated, could rescue talent and virtue from the parochial needs of the family farm. Rather than an apology for an emerging market culture of material desire and commercial dealing, ambition b...
