An Affront to Gravity - Steve Trenam

Descriere An Affront to Gravity - Steve Trenam

\n \nAs far as poetry is concerned, I am neither sure-footed nor clear. Metaphorically speaking, I am out on a leafless limb with just spider webs and moss, listening to the silken slip of water over stone. And the fact that no one understands me, doesn't make me an artist. My poems will probably not send a flurry of palpitations through the Gallery of Important Things Said, but then, my expectations have always been unreasonably high. Sometimes, when a poem fails, I carry around my ineptitude like a bowling ball, for the rest of the day envisioning the blank page just lying there, a fallen tree from the forest, soundlessly waiting. \n \nI would much prefer my poems give the reader a sudden inhalation of joy-a reflexive gasp of awe and wonder-like seeing a Ferris wheel for the first time. If this volume has that effect on even a small portion of the reading populace, I will be ecstatic.\n \n \n\n \nAbout the Author\n \n \n\n \nThere are few activities that give me more pleasure than nudging\n \nwords across the blankly disquieting page, and pushing clay\n \naround, into, and through itself. I have been fortunate to work in\n \ntwo disciplines, writing and ceramics, and I have discovered the\n \nend result seldom exactly matches the goal in either. It is the work\n \nthat matters-the engagement of my imagination, the intuitive\n \nuse of my mind and hands. In the end, the artist discovers art has\n \na mind of its own, and it is these repeated realizations that enrich\n \nmy life. As much as any other work that I do, these small transformative\n \njourneys carry me (for the most part) forward.\n \nMy mother owned a bookstore from 1962 to 1985 in Petaluma, \n \nCalifornia. It was called Alta's Old Book Shop, and its value\n \nlay not in glossy modernity, but in its being a sort of dusty delivery\n \nroom for the birth of ideas. It was for me, a refuge from hasty\n \njudgment, a source for answers and insights which enlarged my\n \npersonal life and gave it meaning, and also generated an impulse\n \nto write.\n \nI am currently teaching a poetry writing class at the Vintage\n \nHouse Senior Center in Sonoma as part of the Santa Rosa Junior\n \nCollege Older Adults Program. There is magic in this group of\n \npeople; they are blossoming as poets and contributing immeasurably\n \nto my own ability to write poetry. I am most thankful for\n \ntheir presence in my life.\n

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Blue Light Press

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9781421836751

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