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In Zoller's poems how we speak about life--as physical passage, as spiritual pilgrimage, as imagined patterns, as emotional canvas, as interwoven narrative strands, and as social construct--all these voices meet in one conversation. Between Photographs that begins the book and Hard Copy that brings it to a close we find everything from first impressions to Second Knowings, from notes on the poems of Mao and Seamus Heaney to prayers to the God of time, eternity, and love.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50254222033169,"sku":"CIN1532636105G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52337311875345,"sku":"NLS9781532636103","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1532636105.jpg?v=1750957712"},{"product_id":"ash-and-embers-book-james-a-zoller-9781532636127","title":"Ash and Embers","description":"Ash \u0026amp; Embers embodies the inherent messiness of life's journey, sorting detritus from treasures, identifying and naming memory, finding categories that reflect life's winding pathways and its treacherous footing. 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It reminds me of my mother cutting sprouts from potatoes, how she would call when I complained Come. Look  water pouring from the tap Look, this we have in abundance. James A. Zoller lives and writes in rural western New York where he and his wife, Donna, raised their four children. Simple Clutter is the first of his books, which include Living on the Flood Plain and Ash \u0026amp; Embers. Zoller has spent the last thirty-four years teaching writing and literature at Houghton College. In the near future Zoller looks forward to shifting his attention full time to his writing projects, which includes several more collections of poems, a collection of short stories, and a composition text to be called Crossing the River. 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How can one enumerate, let alone explain, the legion shapes and shades and manifestations by which love reveals itself?These poems in An Angel of the First Degree are all, significantly, love poems. Many of the poems are incidental in that they were written in the busyness of life, the way many things appear in the busyness of life. Some began as a way to describe the joys of everyday togetherness. Some of the poems are humble; such are the Valentine's Day poems. Some of the poems, the wedding poems, are grand, written in celebration and commemoration. These poems would not express honest aspirations for marriage had they not been grounded in my own experience, in my own marriage to the woman who is the subject, object, and primary reader of these poems. 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