by joannezc | Jun 28, 2018 | Poetry review, Reading poetry, Thoughts
Did you ever think of drawing a straight thematic line from a passage in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to the poem “Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge? As every reader of Coleridge knows, his poem is a fragment of the several hundred lines he had composed in his...
by joannezc | Jun 25, 2018 | Poetry review, Reading poetry, Thoughts
A theme that courses through the poems in The Art of Darkness section of my book is the desire to decreate myself, to experience a “soft retreat of senses/And a slow dance to/Self and lessness.” In “Prelude,” I write of my “discovery/And subsequent/Shedding of...
by joannezc | Jun 1, 2018 | My poetry, Thoughts
Wind represents change, and the consecration of wind elevates that transformation to a spiritual level. Many of my poems reflect a desire to change, to leave parts of myself behind, to become someone else. That denial of self had its origins in childhood, thanks in...
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