Bøger af Jan Seale

This is an account of family stories with a determined emphasis on showing what happened when two people in the arts spawned three children who also became artists. In this, Jan Seale's latest book, Jan presents a biography of her family's immersion in the arts. The book examines how every member of the family, parents and their three sons, became accomplished artists, each in a different art form.

Parkinson's disease and poetry square off in this volume written from the perspectives of a caregiver and her husband. With grit, humor, and compassion, Jan Seale spells out the vicissitudes of dealing with this so-far incurable neurological condition affecting seven million people worldwide. From onset through progression and treatment to final simple toleration, the poems testify to the mysteries and vagaries of the disease. Seeing faces in everything, lacking the ability to smile, stalling in doorways, obsessing on creativity-these and other peculiar symptoms of the brain syndrome are explored in accessible poetry from the desk of a Texas poet laureate.

"In this volume, Jan Seale contemplates small things. Think peppercorns, straight pins, freckles. Think fingernails, commas, stamps. These objects have their own raison d'etre. Here are the small sublime, the Lilliputian laughable, the diminutive dear. Relish their existence. Their essence and standing may be important beyond our or their knowing."--Page 4 of cover.

For years Jan Seale's carefully crafted poetry has captivated audiences with its wit, sharp diction, and seamlessness. This riveting collection of work, both new and old, celebrates her broad achievements as a poet. Designated the 2012 Texas Poet Laureate, Seale reveres poetry as 'the most elegant and most historic of our verbal arts'.

Jan Seale's capable evocation of peculiar personalities mixes with her sense of nostalgia and richly drawn places to create an ambiance of the extraordinary in the most commonplace of circumstances. Her characters are a delightful collection of people bewildered by life and haunted by memory but who also find themselves relying on the confidence of experience and the solidity of conviction to press on, no matter what. This is a delightful collection of insightful vignettes that remind us how human and vulnerable we all are, how wrong we often can be, and how, in the long run, it's the integrity of our intentions that makes all the difference.

Jan Seale's poetry is both beautifully witty and serious, often ingeniously weaving contemporary life with the mythical, the eternal with the transient, joy with an awareness of loss. These poems are documentations honoring the earth and family in memory and moment. Each poem at the heart is of the heart, its attachments and joys, its griefs and serenities.

Jan Seale writes lyric poetry with a gift of intimacy, wrapping readers in rich, absorbing scenes and seeing. The sense of invitation in her poems-welcome to this moment, this perception, this life-is openhearted and abundant. Her language unfurls deliciously.