Bøger af Miriam Sagan

It must be noted that the all tanka in this book reveal true feelings of the poet composed in the colloquial diction. We do not find in these tanka any type of mannerism, artificialities of emotion and phrases. Some of these tanka with fervent feelings, written with profound imaginative power, are intense lyrics of immediate personal response.

Centered in northern New Mexico, this collection of poetry describes a series of journeys that create maps of place and memory. The poems travel south to deserts both mythical and real, east to childhood and the past, west to the Pacific and notions of Buddhism, and north to Alaska and a cold transcendence. Each section concludes with a return home where reflection charts locations and people lost to everything from the passage of time to urban renewal.

"Sagan¿s richly sensual writing blends elements of mature insight with deeply felt experience. These are poems of an examined life with moments of Zen clarity throughout. It is, in fact, the clarity that drives these poems. The language is careful but deliberate, exquisitely crafted and emotionally moving. One gets the sense that her desire to write poetry comes from the desire to give permanent voice to something in the experience of life ¿ to find ourselves spoken for in art gives dignity to our pain, our anger, our lust, and our losses. This is what poetry is about. When Miriam Sagan casts her imaginative eye on something, it stares back."¿Jeanie C. Williams, Southwest Book Views