Einstein's Knot by Phyllis Stowell
This lush, sensuous book illumines a deep interior-we feel as if we're holding a torch to the wall of a cave, seeing the beginning of the imagination itself in the outline of a primal world. The unforgettable, sometimes shocking images of Phyllis Stowell's Einstein's Knot refresh not only acts of perception but acts of insight, energizing the poems with intimacy and candor. Stowell is blithely companionable with the sublime. And she's strangely affectionate to hard-won truths and to the bracing circumstances that generate them. I love this book for its strength and beauty, for its sense willingness to do difficult spiritual work and for its original sense of the pleasure of that work: If there resides within us an enigmatic god / that changes only when we change / how change without illumination? Poetry should always be this deep, this immediate, and this raw.---Katie Peterson
Phyllis Stowell's new book is full of magic and mystery; complex, witty, and often poignant; each poem is a meditation held together with little knots of wonder. Love, grief, childhood memories, and mortality all take their places in the shadows of the mind and the stony reality of the everyday.
---Sandra M. Gilbert
Stowell, Phyllis: - Phyllis Stowell received a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State (University) and a PhD in Poetry and Depth Psychology from Union Institute and University. She is Professor Emerita from Saint Mary's College and Founding Member of the SMC Master of Fine Arts. She is the former Chair of the Friends Of the Institute (C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco). She has attended six artists' residencies, published eight books of poetry and APPETITE, Food as Metaphor, An Anthology of Women's Poetry (BOA Editions). Currently she emails a Poetry Post of her recent poetry to friends and acquaintances, and includes new poetry by others on her website. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781950462681 |
| ISBN 10 | 1950462684 |
| Title | Einstein's Knot |
| Author | Phyllis Stowell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kelsay Books |
| Year published | 2020-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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